Canadian Military Engineers
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The Canadian Military Engineers is the military engineering personnel branch of the Canadian Armed Forces. The members of the branch that wear army uniform comprise the Corps of Royal Canadian Enginee
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Canadian engineers building a bridge across the Canal du Nord, France, in 1918
Grave in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff of Sapper CE Avery, who died a week after the Armistice in November 1918
Two military engineers with bagpipes in front of the Canadian Engineers Building at Hastings Park, 1915.
Sapper
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A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clea
Canadian Military Engineers
…and assisting with trench raids. Canadian Engineers also served in the Middle East fighting the Turks. One of the most important functions of the Sappers in the war was to dig tunnels for mines underneath enemy trenches, with which to plant explosives to destroy them. At the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and…
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1815 engraving of a British Army sapper (left)
The fort of Ghazni which fell as a result of mining by a mixed contingent of the Bombay and Bengal Sappers during the First Afghan War on 23 July 1839.
A sapper of the Royal Engineers watches as soldiers reinforce security at FOB (Forward Operating Base) Shawqat in Afghanistan.