Soldier Artificer Company
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The Soldier Artificer Company was a unit of the British Army raised in Gibraltar in 1772 to work on improving the fortifications there. It was the Army's first unit of military artificers and labourer
Members of the Soldier Artificer Company in uniform, circa 1786
Members of the Soldier Artificer Company in their working dress
King's Bastion, built by the Company between 1773–76
Mock-up showing members of the Soldier Artificer Company digging the Upper Gallery
Henry Ince
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Henry Ince was a sergeant-major in the British Army who achieved fame as the author of a plan to tunnel through the North Face of the Rock of Gibraltar in 1782, during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. As
Soldier Artificer Company
…1,000 Spanish dollars to "any one who can suggest how I am to get a flanking fire upon the enemy's works". In response, the Company's Sergeant-Major, Henry Ince, proposed to tunnel a gallery through the Rock to reach an outcrop called the Notch, so that a cannon could be mounted there to cover the entire North…
Inside a gallery on the Rock of Gibraltar, engraved by I.C. Stadler after Rev C. Willyams (c. 1800), depicting one of the tunnels excavated by Henry Ince
Memorial plaque to Henry Ince at the Gibraltar Methodist Church