I Corps Troops, Royal Engineers was a battalion-sized unit of Royal Engineers attached to the British I Corps Headquarters in World War II. It served with the British Expeditionary Force in the Battle
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Transport crossing 'London Bridge' into the Orne bridgehead during Operation Goodwood.
Tanks, infantry and sappers advance during Operation Astonia
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Manchester in 1901. It became the engineer component of the 42nd Division of the Territorial Force, seei
I Corps Troops, Royal Engineers
…initial attack at Le Havre was launched by 56th Brigade of 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, supported by 240 Fd Co of I CTRE and led by the AVREs of 42 Assault Regiment, RE. 'Astonia' was very much a sapper's operation: the port was heavily fortified, but despite setbacks the set-piece operation went well, the defences…
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Royal Engineers laying a Pontoon bridge during the German retreat, March 1917.
A Royal Engineers Signal Company at work on the Western Front.
British motorcycle despatch rider in France.