The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers is the administrative corps of the New Zealand Army responsible for military engineering. The role of the Engineers is to assist in maintaining friendly forces
Canterbury Engineer Volunteers constructing a bridge, c. 1900
Sappers resting in a shell hole near Ypres, 1917
New Zealand Engineers constructing a bridge on the Western Front, 1918
A sapper clearing a German S-mine in Libya, 1943
Samuel Forsyth
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Samuel Forsyth, VC was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that could be awarded at the time to British and Commonwealth forces.
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…the course of the war the New Zealand Engineers suffered around 400 fatalities. Two members of the corps, Cyril Bassett (Divisional Signal Company) and Samuel Forsyth (attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment) were awarded the Victoria Cross. Following the war the Corps of New Zealand Engineers was…
Sergeant Samuel Forsyth, 1918
A portrait of Samuel Forsyth, executed by Richard Wallwork in 1920