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  Royal
Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering is a engineering.
Royal Engineers The Royal Engineers, or the sappers are Kent.
Royal Welch Fusiliers The Royal Welch Fusiliers is a Welsh.
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 Encyclopedia: Royal Air Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Royal Flying Corps was a division of the Royal Engineers, under the control of the British Army.
The Corps of Royal Engineers (RE), commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.
Air forces The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majestys Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Air-Force   (10501 words)

  
 Samuel Cody in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
Cody was charged with the formation of two kite sections of the Royal Engineers.
The machine was damaged at the end of this flight, which was announced as the first official flight of a heavier than air machine in the British Isles.
This plane was then fitted with a new 120hp engine, and won the £5,000 Military Trials on Salisbury Plain in 1912.
www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Samuel_Cody.html   (1037 words)

  
 Royal Aero Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.
It was initially concerned with ballooning but, after the invention of heavier than air flight, it embraced the airplane.
From 1910 the Club issued Aviators Certificates, which were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (the FAI) to which the club was the UK representative.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Aero_Club   (314 words)

  
 Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Royal Engineers, or the sappers are one of the corps of the British Army.
The headquarters of the Royal School of Miltiary Engineering are in Chatham in Kent.
The Air Battalion Royal Engineers was the precursor of the Royal Flying Corps which evolved into the Royal Air Force.
www.therfcc.org /royal-engineers-13930.html   (160 words)

  
 Royal Engineers - Heritage
In the same year the Royal Sappers and Miners were incorporated into the Royal Engineers and the officers and soldiers served under the same cap badge.
The Royal Engineers were responsible for the introduction of much new technology to the Army - telegraphy during the Crimean War of 1854 - 1856, photography in the Abyssinian Campaign of 1867 and steam road traction in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873.
Royal Engineers were closely involved in the development of airborne forces and played an important part in many of their operations.
www.army.mod.uk /royalengineers/heritage   (1680 words)

  
 Engineer Units Page
On 26 May 1716 a Royal Warrant of George I authorised the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Corps of Engineers as separate entities.
The role of an The Royal Engineers in an Armoured Division
For the Royal Engineers this mostly applied to civil engineering plant and machinery; for the Royal Signals, radio, telegraph and telephone equipment and for the Royal Army Service Corps (the predecessors of the Royal Corps of Transport), all forms of motor transport.
www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/orgengineers.htm   (2481 words)

  
 Articles - Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Engineers have always served in the armies of the Crown, however the origins of the modern corps, along with those of the Royal Artillery, lie in the Board of Ordnance established in the 15th century.
The Royal Engineers Museum of Military Engineering is in Gillingham in Kent.
The Royal Engineers were responsible for railway and inland waterway transport, port operations and movement control until 1965, when these functions were transferred to the new Royal Corps of Transport.
www.lastring.com /articles/Royal_Engineers   (889 words)

  
 The Royal Air Force - History
This Time Line traces the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force from 1780 to 1918, documenting the major events in the development of flight and the service during this period.
It continued, "The day may not be far off when aerial operations with their devastation of enemy lands and destruction of industrial and populous centres on a vast scale may become the principal operations of war, to which the older forms of military and naval operations may become secondary and subordinate".
At the end of the War, the RAF was the largest Air Force in the world with 27,333 officers, 263,837 other ranks, 22,647 aircraft, 103 airships, 133 front-line squadrons, 15 flights and 270 aerodromes overseas, 55 front-line squadrons, 75 training squadrons/depots, 401 aerodromes at home and 25,000 WRAF members.
www.raf.mod.uk /history/line1780.html   (1426 words)

  
 1871429 Staff Sergeant GERALD ROBERTS, Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He appears to have been a very athletic young soldier, for while in training he was awarded the Training Battalion Royal Engineers bronze medal for the Cross Country Run in the autumn of 1935.[3] In January of 1936 he was also awarded a Second Class Certificate of Education.
In spite of the efforts of the Royal Engineers, Royal Australian Engineers, Indian Engineers units and the Singapore municipal engineers, the water supply was badly damaged and began to fail.
It is possible that enemy soldiers with engineering skills may have been useful to the Japanese in a prisoner of war camp near Fukuoka, not only as forced labour, but also for their technical skills.
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 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (2 RCR) is a mechanizied infantry battalion that is under the command of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (2CMBG) and administered by Land Force Atlantic Area.
As the only Regular Force infantry battalion stationed in Atlantic Canada, its soldiers are frequently called upon to perform duties in support of regional operations including: assistance to federal penitentiaries, searches for lost persons, and ceremonial duties and guards of honour.
Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment have met the challenge of soldiering in the 1990s and will continue to serve Canada at home and abroad in the new millennium.
www.army.dnd.ca /cfb_gagetown/units/2rcr_e.asp   (757 words)

  
 Captain John William Bradford, Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Royal Engineers were interested in him as a recruit, since he possessed many of the skills required by them in their work.
This was a newly created training battalion that was formed to handle the increasing training needs of the Royal Engineers during mobilization for the war.
Captain Bradford was rendered full military honours by the Royal Engineers at his funeral as was befitting a man who had served almost 28 years of his life honorably and unselfishly in the service of his country during the reigns of three monarchs.
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 Corps of Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Transport; RE absorbed RAF Airfield Construction Branch as new regts & sqns
Regimental Units of the Corps of Royal Engineers and its predecessors 1772-1889, by Ravi Rikhye (Orbat.com)
VCs in the Royal Engineers Museum, by Iain Stewart.
www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RE.htm   (1014 words)

  
 Royal Flying Corps
At first progress was slow and by 1912 the Air Battalion only had eleven qualified pilots compared to 263 in the French Army Air Service.
At the beginning of the war the RFC mainly used the BE-2, Farman MF-7, Avro 504, Vickers FB5, Bristol Scout, and the F.E.2.
Eventually, in January 1918, Trenchard was appointed chief of staff to the Royal Air Force with the promise of being able to create a mass bombing fleet of aircraft.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWRFC.htm   (446 words)

  
 Roll of Honour - Cheshire - Crewe Boer War Memorial
Sapper, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Volunteers)
Surgeon Captain, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Volunteers)
Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Volunteers)
www.roll-of-honour.com /Cheshire/CreweBoerWar.html   (1112 words)

  
 Aviation on Salisbury Plain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lack of expertise and, some times unreliable aircraft inevitably resulted in accidents two of which are commemorated on Salisbury Plain.
This was the first fatal aeroplane accident on Salisbury Plain, both pilot and passenger were members of the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers.
A memorial in the shape of a cross now stands on an island at the cross roads, known to the locals as 'Airmen's Cross' The inscription on the memeorial reads.
www.this-is-amesbury.co.uk /military.html   (644 words)

  
 Bosleys, royal air force, regiment officer
14 Royal Sherwood Foresters pre 1881 glengarry badge.
36 Royal Welch Fusiliers bandsman’s fur cap grenade.
718 Royal Navy Victorian Officer’s bullion cap badge.
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 The Russo-Japanese War - Appendix 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Educated Wellington, RMA Woolwich; Joined Royal Engineers, 1891.
Edwards, Hugh (1873—1916), Lieutenant (Royal Navy), HMS Talbot.
Commander of Royal Artillery, South Midland Infantry Brigade, 1910.
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