1st Sussex Engineers
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The 1st Sussex Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Eastbourne in 1890. It became the engineer component of the 44th Division of the Territorial Force, but its units s
RE Cap badge (King George V cipher)
Memorial plaque in St George's Church, Brighton
Royal Engineers laying a Pontoon bridge during the German retreat, March 1917.
A Royal Engineers Signal Company at work on the Western Front.
44 Signal Regiment was a Territorial Army unit of the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. It had its origins in a Volunteer unit of the Royal Engineers formed in the 1890s. It provided the division
1st Sussex Engineers
…Co, Brighton, absorbed into HQ Divisional RE (HQRE) 1924; reformed at Worthing 1939 The signal company transferred to the new Royal Corps of Signals as 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Signals. The Sussex Fortress Engineers began to reform on 1 November 1920, but a year later 210 Fd Co was moved from Middlesex back to Seaford and absorbed the…
Royal Signals erecting cable poles in France, 1940.