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At 8 p.m. eastern time tonight, Poe's Deadly Daughters will host Barb Goffman's online memorial service for her beloved dog, Scout, who died recently.
Why a memorial service for a dog? Barb, a mystery writer and program chair for Malice Domestic, has a multitude of friends in the mystery community, and through her we all got to know the often funny and always endearing Scout. Abandoned by his first owners, Scout spent time in foster care before Barb found him and gave him a life that made up for those early bumps in the road. When he died, many of us felt the loss keenly, not only because he was a wonderful boy but because we knew how much Barb loved him and what a huge part of her life he was.
It's impossible to exaggerate the importance of pets in our lives, or to overstate the joy and comfort and love they give us. Anyone who has lost a companion animal — and most of us have — knows the grief can be every bit as intense as that for a human friend. Please join us tonight to help Barb say goodbye to Scout.
In the meantime, I'd like to reprise something I posted a couple of years ago about the unique relationship between humans and dogs.
We give a lot of attention to the similarities between humans and chimpanzees – look-alike brains and all that DNA in common, plus a human-like family structure – but the animal that understands us best may be lying at your feet right now. Pure brain power is one thing, but when it comes to succeeding in a human-dominated world, no species can match the domesticated canine.
About 15,000 years ago, humans began to see the benefits of settling down in one place and growing their food instead of roaming endlessly in hunt-and-gather mode. Agriculture was born. And, inevitably, garbage resulted. Enter the dog. Human settlements provided a reliable supply of food. Making nice with the humans allowed easy access, and even some bonus tidbits. Dogs were undoubtedly happy to act as guards – after all, protecting the humans that supplied the food was in the dogs' own best interests. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that has evolved and deepened into something unique.
Now it's difficult to imagine a world without dogs. Those few human societies in which dogs are not kept as companions seem odd to the rest of us. We have learned that affection and rewards will buy us anything where dogs are concerned. They lead the blind and assist people with other handicaps, sniff out contraband in luggage and shipping crates, chase down criminals and go into battle alongside soldiers, rescue us from burning buildings, locate both living and dead people buried under rubble after natural disasters, guard our houses and businesses and stand between us and anyone who tries to hurt us.
I can't imagine a chimpanzee doing any of those things. In addition to intelligence, chimps share a prominent trait with us: they are self-centered. (And as much I adore my cats, our relationship is mostly give on my part and take on theirs.) Dogs, however, build their lives around humans. As long as we treat them right, they will do anything for us. And the amount of money spent annually on veterinary care, dog food, treats, toys, doggie apparel, beds, etc., indicates that we will just as readily do anything for them.
Research indicates that brain size and innate intelligence are less important to a dog's success with people than an ability to focus on human behavior. In a testing situation, pet dogs demonstrate that what matters most to them is what the humans around them do and what they appear to expect from the dog. Dogs that can't pick up cues from humans or refuse to do what people expect of them tend to be "selected out" – and that can mean anything from being removed from a breeding program to being dumped at a shelter. Paying attention to people reaps big rewards for a dog.
Far too often, humans abuse that devotion and force dogs to do things that go against their nature and best interests. The post-rescue stories of Michael Vick's fighting dogs prove that viciousness is not an inborn trait of all pit bulls but a response to brutal training, an effort by the dogs to do what humans expect of them. The dogs rescued from Vick's operation showed the same psychological trauma evidenced by abused children. In the hands of rehabbers at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (see http://www.bestfriends.org/vickdogs/ and http://tinyurl.com/5webyha), these scarred and terrified animals have learned to trust people and to show their true personalities. Some are now living as contented pets in homes with small children, other dogs, and/or cats.
The modern domesticated dog was, in a very real sense, created by people to serve our purposes. We have a powerful influence on the behavior of individual dogs. Humans can ruin a dog. But we can also save it.


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- January 19, 2011
The Longboat Key Town Commission knows it has a major problem with its three pension plans.
But it's not sure how to fix a growing unfunded-liability problem that has town taxpayers on the hook for $21 million in unfunded liabilities — and counting.
At a special pension workshop held Monday, Nov. 16, the Town Commission heard from its actuary, pension attorney and a financial management director who spoke about the problems the town faces with its three pension plans.
During the presentations, the commission heard negative reports about its pension plans and received no clear direction on how to solve the problem without spending money.
Town pension attorney James Linn, of Lewis, Longman & Walker, told the commission that total annual costs for the town's police, firefighter and general-employee pension plans cost $2.2 million per year, which is roughly 30% of the town's payroll costs and 15% of the general fund's operating budget.
"Total costs have increased 216% over the past six years in these plans," said Linn, who explained that most public pension plans have lost between 10% and 15% in the last fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008.
By comparison, the town's police plan lost 11.4%, the fire plan lost 10.2%, and the general-employee plan lost 13.9% in the last fiscal year alone.
"The costs of these plans will continue to increase over the next five years," Linn said.
The town can reduce benefits to its employees, increase employee contributions, terminate the plans or freeze them, according to Linn.
Said Linn: "But there is no silver bullet that's going to fix your problem."
The town also has the option of joining the Florida Retirement System (FRS) or setting up a defined contribution plan.
But Linn pointed out that although joining the FRS would "get the town out of the pension business" and reduce costs over time, the town would have no control over the new system and what the Legislature mandates the town to invest each month.
"Plus, the town still must pay off its current liability problem," Linn said.
Reducing benefits for all employees, Linn said, is the only way to significantly create an immediate cost savings that will reduce unfunded liabilities.
Foster & Foster Actuary Brad Heinrichs, however, urged the town to think about its options before making a decision about its three pension plans.
"Understand that if you make a decision to reduce benefits, that will give you the quickest savings from an actuarial standpoint, while generating the most animosity amongst the membership," Heinrichs said.
Although Commissioner Gene Jaleski proposed using pension bonds as a way of paying off the unfunded liability debt, the pension experts warned it was a gamble.
"You already have the liability," Linn said. "It shouldn't be done without significant review, because there's only been one 30-year period going back to 1926 where bonds outperformed stocks. We just experienced that."
Heinrichs recommended the commission come up with a list of objectives that are important for them to accomplish, and, then, the consultants could tell them how to accomplish the goals.
After four hours of discussion, the commission decided to ask Heinrichs to perform a five-year projection of costs for each of the three plans under different investment-return scenarios.
Heinrichs will bring the study back to the commission for review at its Thursday, Dec. 17 regular workshop.
"Everywhere we look, we are bleeding money," said Vice Mayor Robert Siekmann said. "And we are instilling a lot of fear into more than 100 employees that work for this town."
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An international team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made incredible 3D images of the ghostly atmospheres surrounding comets ISON and Lemmon. These new observations provided important insights into how and where comets forge new chemicals, including intriguing organic compounds.
Comets contain some of the oldest and most pristine materials in our Solar System. Understanding their unique chemistry could reveal much about the birth of our planet and the origin of organic compounds that are the building blocks of life. ALMA's high-resolution observations provided a tantalizing 3D perspective of the distribution of the molecules within these two cometary atmospheres, or comas.
"We achieved truly first-of-a-kind mapping of important molecules that help us understand the nature of comets," said team leader Martin Cordiner, a Catholic University of America astrochemist working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The critical 3D component of the ALMA observations was made by combining high-resolution, two-dimensional images of the comets with high-resolution spectra obtained from three important organic molecules – hydrogen cyanide (HCN), hydrogen isocyanide (HNC), and formaldehyde (H2CO). These spectra were taken at every point in each image. They identified not only the molecules present but also their velocities, which provided the third dimension, indicating the depths of the cometary atmospheres.
The new results revealed that HCN gas flows outward from the nucleus quite evenly in all directions, whereas HNC is concentrated in clumps and jets. ALMA's exquisite resolution could clearly resolve these clumps moving into different regions of the cometary comas on a day-to-day and even hour-to-hour basis. These distinctive patterns confirm that the HNC and H2CO molecules actually form within the coma and provide new evidence that HNC may be produced by the breakdown of large molecules or organic dust.
"Understanding organic dust is important, because such materials are more resistant to destruction during atmospheric entry, and some could have been delivered intact to the early Earth, thereby fueling the emergence of life," said Michael Mumma, director of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology and a co-author on the study. "These observations open a new window on this poorly known component of cometary organics."
"So, not only does ALMA let us identify individual molecules in the coma, it also gives us the ability to map their locations with great sensitivity," said Anthony Remijan, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a study co-author.
The observations, published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, were also significant because modest comets like Lemmon and ISON contain relatively low concentrations of these crucial molecules, making them difficult to probe in depth with Earth-based telescopes. The few comprehensive studies of this kind so far have been conducted on extremely bright comets, such as Hale-Bopp. The present results extend them to comets of only moderate brightness.
Comet ISON (formally known as C/2012 S1) was observed with ALMA on November 15-17, 2013, when it was only 75 million kilometers from the Sun (about half the distance of the Earth to the Sun). Comet Lemmon (formally known as C/2012 F6) was observed on June 1-2, 2013, when it was 224 million kilometers from the Sun (about 1.5 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun).
"The high sensitivity achieved in these studies paves the way for observations of perhaps hundreds of the dimmer or more distant comets," said Goddard's Stefanie Milam, a study co-author. "The findings suggest that it should also be possible to map more complex molecules that have so far eluded detection in comets."
This research was funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute through the Goddard Center for Astrobiology and by NASA's Planetary Atmospheres and Planetary Astronomy programs.
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The GXR's two-unit design is either bold or crazy, depending on your view. It has technical advantages but it's expensive. And while the 24-70mm camera unit might make sense as a start, its small sensor could scupper the concept before it gains momentum
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The Ricoh GXR system comes in two parts. The body houses the controls, the viewing system, the battery and the memory card. The interchangeable camera unit contains the sensor and the processing hardware.
The idea is that you swap camera units according to the type of job you're doing, and the Ricoh has two to choose from straight out of the box, including an A12 50mm f/2.5 Macro fixed focal length unit and the S10 24‑72mm f/2.5-4.4 VC unit, which we've tested here. All clear?
Now this is where it gets confusing. These camera units have different sized sensors. The 24-72mm unit has a 1/1.7-inch sensor while the 50mm unit offers an APS-C‑sized sensor. This makes the GXR harder to categorise and judge.
Is it a compact camera with an SLR-sized sensor? Sometimes. Or is it an expensive and slightly complicated compact? Again, sometimes.
Of the two units currently available, the 50mm Macro unit is arguably the more exciting in that it uses a larger APS-C-sized sensor. It wasn't available for review, but our hands-on test suggested bigger sensors are surely the future (if there is one) for the GXR. Meanwhile, a recent Ricoh presentation has hinted at a third camera unit, boasting a high-speed CMOS sensor and what looks like a telephoto lens.
Most importantly, once the body and chosen unit are slotted together, the GXR feels like a 'proper' camera. You immediately forget that it's made up of two parts, because the fit is perfect. It's barely bigger than Ricoh's other compacts, and significantly smaller than the Olympus E-P1 or Panasonic GF1 – a fact that could prove very significant later on if we see some more larger sensor camera units arrive.
A league of its own
Apart from the unique design, two things stand out with the GXR: its build quality and its controls. There are some very good high-end compacts around right now, including the Canon G11 and S90 and the Panasonic Lumix LX3, but the GXR is in another league.
The controls are firm, tight and precise, and the layout is excellent. A small but perfectly weighted control dial on the front takes care of a dozen different adjustments, depending on the context, while a rotary controller on the back operates as both a button and a dial for quickly setting ISO, white balance, quality or any number of other functions – it's completely customisable, as are the two separate function buttons on the back.
Plus, if you're still not happy, you can use a direct interface button to produce an on-screen overlay that you can navigate with the directional buttons.
The GXR has a spectacularly good three-inch 920,000-pixel LCD screen, but if you prefer you can connect an optional electronic viewfinder (EVF) to the accessory shoe. This also has 920,000 pixels, and it swivels up to 90° for waist level shots or tricky macros. This camera unit focuses right down to 1cm, and while the minimum focus does change when you zoom, it's only a little, increasing to around 3cm.
The macro capabilities, then, are exceptional – which does rather undermine Ricoh's separate 50mm macro camera unit, although that does have the larger sensor and could double as both a portrait and short telephoto lens.
But what about the pictures? The 24-72mm zoom has very good edge-to-edge sharpness and not much distortion (the camera can correct distortion internally too), and the exposure and white balance systems are up to the same high standard.
However, there's a limit to what any 1/1.7-inch sensor can do, and both noise and noise reduction start to creep in as early as ISO200-400. This camera unit does go all the way up to ISO3200, but the small sensor means that the quality's on the slide well before you get that far.
Compared to regular compacts, the GXR looks hugely overpriced. But as a second camera for a serious enthusiast or professional, it deserves to be taken very seriously. The GXR is small enough to slip into a jacket pocket and yet offers experienced photographers direct, hands-on control with a speed and efficiency you simply won't find in another mainstream compact. It's not always about money...
If Ricoh doesn't come up with more camera units, and soon, the GXR may remain just an expensive oddity. However, if a wider selection of camera units follow, especially with APS-C sensors, this camera could turn into a modern classic. Watch this space.
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CARBONARIIS, GIOVANNI ANTONIO DE, Italian priest, probably sailed with John Cabot's expedition, 1498; fl. 1489–98.
Carbonariis appears to have been involved in the complex diplomatic relationships between the Italian states, the papacy, France, Spain, and England – the background against which the Cabot voyages took place. Apparently a man of note, Carbonariis spent some time in England, as an envoy or agent of the dukes of Milan. In 1489, Henry VII of England sent him as a royal messenger to Gian Galeazzo Sforza, and in 1497, Ludovico Sforza's envoy in England, Raimondo de Soncino, speaks of Carbonariis as "the Reverend Master" whose advice he would take while in England.
Prior to the sailing of Cabot's 1498 expedition, the duke sent a letter to Carbonariis in England, which Agostino de Spinula – in a letter from London, dated 20 June 1498 – said he would keep until Carbonariis's return: he had "left recently with five ships, which his Majesty sent to discover new islands." Carbonariis may have sailed on the London ship victualled at the king's expense by Lancelot Thirkill and Thomas Bradley, and not on one of the two Bristol ships immediately under John Cabot's command. Nothing further is known about Carbonariis, although he may well have returned to England.
PRO, CSP, Milan [1385–1618], 250–1, 321, 344, 348. Williamson, Voyages of the Cabots (1929), 38–39, 181; Cabot's voyages (1962).
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has found evidence that at least one employee of Bangladesh's central bank was involved in the theft of US$81 million from the bank through a complex hack, according to a newspaper report.
The number of employees involved could be higher, with people familiar with the matter suggesting that a handful of others may also have assisted hackers to negotiate Bangladesh Bank's computer system, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Bangladesh Bank officials could not be reached for comment.
The attackers tried to transfer $951 million out of Bangladesh Bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February, but most of the transfers were blocked before they could be completed. Some $81 million were sent to accounts in the Philippines.
Bangladeshi officials have partly blamed the hack on the SWIFT financial network, with a bank official and police officer investigating the hack telling Reuters that the connection of SWIFT to the country's first real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system left loopholes for hackers.
Bangladesh Bank is responsible for the security of its own systems interfacing with the SWIFT network, starting with basic password protection practices, the SWIFT global financial network said in a statement. It rejected the allegations by the bank and the police as "false, inaccurate and misleading."
The police official, Mohammad Shah Alam, told Reuters that his force wants to interview SWIFT technicians to find out whether their actions were intentional or negligent.
Representatives of the Bangladesh Bank, SWIFT and the New York Federal Reserve Bank are meeting in Basel on Tuesday, when the suspicions of the FBI about an insider hand and the role of the SWIFT integration are likely to come up.


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By Dean Baker, Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive', and EOI Board Member | From the Huffington Post
According to inside Washington gossip, Congress and the President are going to do exactly what voters elected them to do; they are going to cut Social Security by 3 percent. You don't remember anyone running on that platform? Yeah, well, they probably forgot to mention it.
Of course some people may have heard Vice President Joe Biden when he told an audience in Virginia that there would be no cuts to Social Security if President Obama got re-elected. Biden said:
"I guarantee you, flat guarantee you, there will be no changes in Social Security. I flat guarantee you."
But that's the way things work in Washington. You can't expect the politicians who run for office to share their policy agenda with voters. After all, we might not like it. That's why they say things like they will fight for the middle class and make the rich pay their fair share. These ideas have lots of appeal among voters. Cutting Social Security doesn't.
While the politics of cutting Social Security are bad, it also doesn't make much sense as policy. In Washington, the gang who couldn't see an $8 trillion housing bubble until its collapse sank the economy, has now decided that deficit reduction has to be the preeminent goal.
They don't care that we are still down more than 9 million jobs from our growth trend; deficit reduction must take priority. These whiz kids apparently also don't care that the cuts that have already been made are slowing growth and costing us jobs.
If we actually did have to reduce the deficit it's hard to see why Social Security would be at the top of the list. After all, the vast majority of seniors are not doing especially well right now. Our defined benefit pension system is disappearing and 401(k)s have not come close to filling the gap. Retirees and near retirees have lost a large portion of whatever wealth they had managed to accumulate when the collapse of the housing bubble destroyed much of their home equity.
From a policy standpoint it would make far more sense to tax Wall Street speculation. Congress' Joint Tax Committee estimated that a 0.03 percent tax on each trade could raise almost $40 billion a year. Such a tax would also make the financial sector more efficient by eliminating a huge volume of wasteful trading.
It also is bizarre that Social Security would even be considered in the context of the deficit. In law and in practice it is a separate program, financed by its own designated stream of revenue. Cutting benefits as part of a deficit deal means that we will be making cuts to Social Security with zero quid pro quo in the form of increased revenue. That hardly makes sense if the point is to protect the program.
What's more the cut in fashion in Washington is especially poorly targeted. The idea is to reduce the annual cost of living adjustment by 0.3 percentage points annually by using a different inflation index, the "chained CPI." That translates into a cut in benefits of 3 percent for those who have been retired 10 years, 6 percent after 20 years, and 9 percent after 30 years. The people who have been retired the longest and therefore the poorest will see the largest cuts.
And remember those pledges not to cut benefits for those currently retired? Oh right, no one meant that to be taken seriously.
The benefit cutters argument is another nice piece of DC humor. The argument is that the current index overstates inflation. However, there is an experimental index produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows the current index actually understates inflation for seniors.
That is just an experimental index but if the concern really is accuracy then the obvious answer would be to construct a full index to examine the cost of living of the elderly. But that suggestion just draws contempt from the Social Security cutters.
In order to avoid feeling too badly about their plan to cut Social Security, many of the cutters want to protect some programs for low-income people. For example, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) a program for the disabled and low-income seniors will be protected. The word is that SSI will continue to be indexed to the current inflation index.
If we believe the claim that the chained CPI is the more accurate measure of inflation, this is a proposal to increase SSI benefits each year by an amount that is 0.3 percentage points more than annual rate of inflation. That may make sense to inside Washington types, but anywhere else this is loon tune stuff. If SSI benefits are too low (they are), then raise them. What possible logic can there be to have benefits rise each year by a bit more than the actual rate of inflation?
The bottom line is that President Obama and many leading Democrats are prepared to give seniors a larger hit to their income than they gave to the over $250,000 crowd. And the whole reason it is necessary is that the Wall Street types who wrecked the economy say so. Is everybody happy?
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Park City and Summit County boast a wide variety of locations, both old and new. You can find historic homes (rehabilitated or not), chalets, estate homes, rustic ski lodges, ranches, churches, elegant restaurants, charming cafes, mining structures, and ski resorts. Utah Film Studios opened in the summer of 2015 has hosted a television series, motion picture filming, and other events.
Park City is a world-class resort town offering a variety of amenities and activities including the Utah Olympic Park, a state-of-the-art bobsled and luge track, and a ski jumping facility featuring year-round activities.
The surrounding towns in Summit County; Kamas, Coalville, Oakley, and Echo, are mostly rural in nature. They feature small towns, quaint buildings, scenic vistas, reservoirs, and working ranches. Oakley is home to the famous Oakley Rodeo every Fourth of July, and Echo was a prime stop on the railroad in the late 1800s. Located 30 miles from Park City, near Kamas, is the Wasatch-Cache National Forest with vast and varied terrain ranging from alpine meadows and open vistas to lush forests and crystal mountain lakes.
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Free, statewide efforts for public library web sites:
Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, and Texas: Plinkit
In Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, or Texas, public libraries can get a free Plone based website through the Plinkit collaborative in their state. See here for more info - http://www.plinkit.org/ - scroll down to Partner Sites on the left-hand side to find each state's Plinkit site and contact info.
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What is Plinkit? Plinkit is the web authoring environment that public libraries in partner states use to create smart, new web sites for their patrons. Plinkit stands for "Public Library Interface Kit." It's also a fun word to say. Plinkit is built using Plone, an open-source content management system.
Public library web sites are created and edited right through the web, using built-in text editors and other powerful features that make a tough job simple and give patrons a clean, usable, web site where the information delivery is the true and proper focus. Feel free to check out the demo version.
What is the Plinkit Collaborative? The Collaborative is a membership organization (at the state level) that formed in July 2006. The goal of the Collaborative is to provide Plinkit to public libraries beyond Oregon (where Plinkit started) and to pool funds in support of software development, training, documentation, and marketing activities.
Who is Currently involved? Four states currently participate in the Collaborative: Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, and Texas.
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Idaho's e-Branch in a Box
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Iowa's PLOW
In Iowa, they have PLOW (Putting Libraries on the Web) that provides websites and e-mail services to public libraries -- like Plinkit, it also utilizes Plone.
Kansas's KLOW
The Northeast Kansas Library System has been working with smaller libraries in Kansas to create nice, functional websites using WordPress. They call the project Kansas Libraries on the Web (KLOW) and you can read more about it here.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Squirrel Appreciation Day!
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Squirrel fricassee sounds really good right now.ReplyDelete
Oh my Ruby..your day has arrived...go forth and gather your squirrels :) loves Fozziemum bwahaaha xxReplyDelete
We stopped by Sasha's yesterday for squirrel pizza. hummmm - we wonder if there's any left? It was sure yummy!ReplyDelete
Love ya lots♥
Mitch and Molly
that pizza looks delicious... can you share the recipe with me? shall I eat some hair-ball treatment before I eat squirrels?ReplyDelete
Easy Rider
What a great way to "appreciate" squirrels!!ReplyDelete
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
Oh yes, my furst squirrel pizza, wow and yum, yum. What can I say. Food fit for a Princess!!!!!ReplyDelete
Don't you make a gorgeous couple, Ruby, you and Murphy are sooo cute together !
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Squirrel pizza???? Wow! Send us the recipe!ReplyDelete
Oh come on, they are nothing but prankstersReplyDelete
Lily & Edward
we think Sasha has the best idea - appreciate them on a pizza :)ReplyDelete
Squirrel pizza...mmmmmmmmmReplyDelete
Margarita's and squirrel pizza sounds great!ReplyDelete
Aroo to you,
I think we will skip the squirrel and just get to the margaritas. Your new beau looks very handsome!ReplyDelete
Dip and Elliot x
That is too funny!!! My dogs definitely agree with you!! GET DOWN HERE, Squirrel!!!ReplyDelete
OMD we were Terrorized that we would be TOO late fur a slice of Sasha's Squirrel Pizza... we got the last two she had... WHEW... THANKS fur supplying the MAIN INGREDIENT... you are a PEACH of a furend, Ruby.ReplyDelete
WE hate Squirrels... the evil creatures... they are as bad as VACULA.
When Morgan and I were in the front yard this morning, a squirrel came out of the tree and ran right towards Morgan. Suddenly he realized who she was and turned and ran toward me. He ran right past me and up the front steps and sat on the porch rail yelling at us. What nerve!ReplyDelete
Well, we don't have squirrels here in Oz. But we think we'd appreciate them with a margarita or two.ReplyDelete
Good thing you are on the squirrel hunt Ruby, Sasha's pizza's are so delish!ReplyDelete
Mr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel
Yowza! That squirrel pizza looks divine - we want some!ReplyDelete
Love & Biscuits,
Cathy, Isis & Phoebe
I'll take some skwerril pizza wif a couple margaritas.ReplyDelete
We are going to stir up some squirrel gumbo to go with that pizza! Yummers! Two Ruby-ritas to go! Oh, we saw the romantic way Murphy invited you. Lots of pressure for the rest of us guys!ReplyDelete
I am so happy you said "yes" Ruby! That sure was a fun dip in the margarita wasn't it! We don't have many squirrels around here but we think we could not appreciate them unless they were in our mouth BOL!! I'm looking at the moon tonight, make sure you look too!ReplyDelete
Your Fella WHo Thinks YOU hung The Moon,
and his brother.
you got any snacks?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2015 at 7:52 PM
I would enjoy those little squirrels more if they would slow down enough to me to catch them. ;-) And let me just say your date for the dance is a catch, Ruby. Don't drink too many of those margaritas!ReplyDelete
Haha! Beamer chases them up trees too :)ReplyDelete
I favor smothered squirrel with gravy! Yummers!ReplyDelete
Surely there are too many crunchy bits! lolReplyDelete
Squirrel pizza - OMD!!!!!!!!! My pups would love to try that.ReplyDelete
We would love a slice of squirrel pizza AND a couple of Margaritas!! xo Chloe and LadyBugReplyDelete
Dear Roby,ReplyDelete
Squirrel pizza??? Yes please! (Especially with those FAT squirrels!)
Did you save me any?
Oh yes, Squirrel Pizza! But our favorite is the Squirrel Kabobs with teriyaki sauce...Nom Nom!ReplyDelete
Wyatt and Stanzie


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U.S. border officials say they have seized ancient Egyptian mummy linens during enforcement operations at the Blue Water Bridge that connects Michigan with the Canadian province of Ontario.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday officers seized a package of five jars of containing the artifacts found May 25 on a Canadian mail truck. The truck had been selected for examination at a nearby station in Marysville, Michigan.
Officials say they worked with a Washington-based archaeological organization and determined the artifacts are believed to be from the Ptolemaic Dynasty from 305-30 B.C. Their removal from Egypt appears to be a violation of federal law.
Authorities say they plan to return the artifacts in the near future and are working to determine who is criminally responsible.


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Royal Engineers
|Royal Engineers
Cap badge of the Corps of Royal Engineers.
|United Kingdom
|British Army
|15 Regiments
|Part of
|Commander Land Forces
|Chatham, Kent, England
Ubique (Everywhere)
Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Where Duty and Glory lead)
|Wings (Quick march)
|Brigadier S Hodder
|Chief Royal Engineer
|Lieutenant General Sir Mark Mans
|Tactical recognition flash
|Arms of the British Army
|Combat Arms
|Combat Support Arms
|Combat Services
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. It is highly regarded throughout the military, and especially the Army.
It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is headed by the Chief Royal Engineer. The Regimental Headquarters and the Royal School of Military Engineering are in Chatham in Kent, England. The corps is divided into several regiments, barracked at various places in the United Kingdom and around the world.
The Royal Engineers trace their origins back to the military engineers brought to England by William the Conqueror, specifically Bishop Gundulf of Rochester Cathedral, and claim over 900 years of unbroken service to the crown. Engineers have always served in the armies of the Crown; however, the origins of the modern corps, along with those of the Royal Artillery, lie in the Board of Ordnance established in the 15th century.[1]
In Woolwich in 1716, the Board formed the Royal Regiment of Artillery and established a Corps of Engineers, consisting entirely of commissioned officers. The manual work was done by the Artificer Companies, made up of contracted civilian artisans and labourers. In 1782, a Soldier Artificer Company was established for service in Gibraltar, the first instance of non-commissioned military engineers. In 1787, the Corps of Engineers was granted the Royal prefix and adopted its current name and in the same year a Corps of Royal Military Artificers was formed, consisting of non-commissioned officers and privates, to be officered by the RE. Ten years later the Gibraltar company, which had remained separate, was absorbed and in 1812 the name was changed to the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners.[1]
In 1855 the Board of Ordnance was abolished and authority over the Royal Engineers, Royal Sappers and Miners and Royal Artillery was transferred to the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, thus uniting them with the rest of the Army. The following year, the Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners became a unified corps as the Corps of Royal Engineers and their headquarters were moved from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to Chatham, Kent.[1]
In 1911 the Corps formed its Air Battalion, the first flying unit of the British Armed Forces. The Air Battalion was the forerunner of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.[2]
In 1915, in response to German mining of British trenches under the then static siege conditions of the First World War, the corps formed its own tunnelling companies. Manned by experienced coal miners from across the country, they operated with great success until 1917, when after the fixed positions broke, they built deep dugouts such as the Vampire dugout to protect troops from heavy shelling.[3]
The Corps has no battle honours. Its mottoes, Ubique (Everywhere) and Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Where Duty and Glory lead), were granted by King William IV in 1832, signifying that the Corps had seen action in all the major conflicts of the British Army and almost all of the minor ones as well.[4][5] The Royal Engineers Museum is in Gillingham in Kent.[6]
Before the Second World War, Royal Engineers recruits were required to be at least 5 feet 4 inches tall (5 feet 2 inches for the Mounted Branch). They initially enlisted for six years with the colours and a further six years with the reserve or four years and eight years. Unlike most corps and regiments, in which the upper age limit was 25, men could enlist in the Royal Engineers up to 35 years of age. They trained at the Royal Engineers Depot in Chatham or the RE Mounted Depot at Aldershot.[7]
Significant constructions
Britain having acquired an Empire, it fell to the Royal Engineers to conduct some of the most significant "civil" engineering schemes around the world. Some examples of great works of the era of empire can be found in A. J. Smithers's book Honourable Conquests.[8]
British Columbia
The Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, commanded by Richard Clement Moody, was responsible for the foundation and settlement of British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia.[9][10]
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is one of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, recognisable the world over. Since its opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from every kind of performance genre have appeared on its stage. Each year it hosts more than 350 performances including classical concerts, rock and pop, ballet and opera, tennis, award ceremonies, school and community events, charity performances and lavish banquets. The Hall was designed by Captain Francis Fowke and Major-General Henry Y. D. Scott of the Royal Engineers and built by Lucas Brothers.[11] The designers were heavily influenced by ancient amphitheatres, but had also been exposed to the ideas of Gottfried Semper while he was working at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[12]
Indian infrastructure
Much of the British colonial era infrastructure of India, of which elements survive today, was created by engineers of the three presidencies' armies and the Royal Engineers. Lieutenant (later General Sir) Arthur Thomas Cotton (1803–99), Madras Engineers, was responsible for the design and construction of the great irrigation works on the river Cauvery, which watered the rice crops of Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts in the late 1820s. In 1838 he designed and built sea defences for Vizagapatam. He masterminded the Godavery Delta project where 720,000 acres (2,900 km2) of land were irrigated and 500 miles (800 km) of land to the port of Cocanada was made navigable in the 1840s. Such regard for his lasting legacy was shown when in 1983, the Indian Government erected a statue in his memory at Dowleswaram.[13]
Other irrigation and canal projects included the Ganges Canal, where Colonel Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff (1836–1916) acted as the Chief Engineer and made modifications to the original work. Among other engineers trained in India, Scott-Moncrieff went on to become Under Secretary of State Public Works, Egypt where he restored the Nile barrage and irrigation works of Lower Egypt.[14]
Rideau Canal
The construction of the Rideau Canal was proposed shortly after the War of 1812, when there remained a persistent threat of attack by the United States on the British colony of Upper Canada. The initial purpose of the Rideau Canal was military, as it was intended to provide a secure supply and communications route between Montreal and the British naval base in Kingston, Ontario. Westward from Montreal, travel would proceed along the Ottawa River to Bytown (now Ottawa), then southwest via the canal to Kingston and out into Lake Ontario. The objective was to bypass the stretch of the St. Lawrence River bordering New York State, a route which would have left British supply ships vulnerable to attack or a blockade of the St. Lawrence. The construction of the canal was supervised by Lieutenant-Colonel John By of the Royal Engineers. In 2007 it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognizing it as a work of human creative genius. The Rideau Canal was recognized as the best preserved example of a slack water canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale. Lt. Denison was one of the junior Royal Engineers who worked under Lt. Colonel John By, RE on the Rideau Canal in Upper Canada (1826–1832). Of note, Denison carried out experiments under the direction of Lt. Col. By to determine the strength, for construction purposes of the old growth timber in the vicinity of Bytown. His findings were published by the Institution of Civil Engineers in England who bestowed upon him the prestigious Telford Medal.[15]
Dover's Western Heights
The Western Heights of Dover are one of the most impressive fortifications in Britain. They comprise a series of forts, strong points and ditches, designed to protect the United Kingdom from invasion. They were created to augment the existing defences and protect the key port of Dover from both seaward and landward attack. First given earthworks in 1779 against the planned invasion that year, the high ground west of Dover, England, now called Dover Western Heights, was properly fortified in 1804 when Lieutenant-Colonel William Twiss was instructed to modernise the existing defences. This was part of a huge programme of fortification in response to Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom. To assist with the movement of troops between Dover Castle and the town defences Twiss made his case for building the Grand Shaft in the cliff:
"... the new barracks. ... are little more than 300 yards horizontally from the beach. ... and about 180 feet (55 m) above high-water mark, but in order to communicate with them from the centre of town, on horseback the distance is nearly a mile and a half and to walk it about three-quarters of a mile, and all the roads unavoidably pass over ground more than 100 feet (30 m) above the barracks, besides the footpaths are so steep and chalky that a number of accidents will unavoidably happen during the wet weather and more especially after floods. I am therefore induced to recommend the construction of a shaft, with a triple staircase ... the chief objective of which is the convenience and safety of troops ... and may eventually be useful in sending reinforcements to troops or in affording them a secure retreat."[16]
Twiss's plan was approved and building went ahead. The shaft was to be 26 feet (7.9 m) in diameter, 140 feet (43 m) deep with a 180 feet (55 m) gallery connecting the bottom of the shaft to Snargate Street, and all for under an estimated £4000. The plan entailed building two brick-lined shafts, one inside the other. In the outer would be built a triple staircase, the inner acting as a light well with "windows" cut in its outer wall to illuminate the staircases. Apparently, by March 1805 only 40 feet (12 m) of the connecting gallery was left to dig and it is probable that the project was completed by 1807.[16]
Pentonville Prison
Two Acts of Parliament allowed for the building of Pentonville Prison for the detention of convicts sentenced to imprisonment or awaiting transportation. Construction started on 10 April 1840 and was completed in 1842. The cost was £84,186 12s 2d. Captain (later Major General Sir) Joshua Jebb designed Pentonville Prison, introducing new concepts such as single cells with good heating, ventilation and sanitation.[17]
Boundary Commissions
Although mapping by what became the Ordnance Survey was born out of military necessity it was soon realised that accurate maps could be also used for civic purposes. The lessons learnt from this first boundary commission were put to good use around the world where members of the Corps have determined boundaries on behalf of the British as well as foreign governments; some notable boundary commissions include:[18]
- 1839 – Canada-United States
- 1858 – Canada-United States (Captain (later General Sir) John Hawkins RE)
- 1856 and 1857 – Russo-Turkish (Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) Edward Stanton RE)
- 1857 – Russo-Turkish (Colonel (later Field Marshal Sir) Lintorn Simmons RE)
- 1878 – Bulgarian
- 1880 – Græco-Turkish (Major (later Major General Sir) John Ardagh RE)
- 1884 – Russo-Afghan (Captain (later Colonel Sir) Thomas Holdich RE)
- 1894 – India-Afghanistan (Captain (later Colonel Sir) Thomas Holdich RE)
- 1902 – Chile-Argentine (Colonel Sir Delme Radcliffe RE)
- 1911 – Peru-Bolivia (Major A. J. Woodroffe RE)
Much of this work continues to this day. The reform of the voting franchise brought about by the Reform Act (1832), demanded that boundary commissions were set up. Lieutenants Dawson and Thomas Drummond (1797–1839), Royal Engineers, were employed to gather the statistical information upon which the Bill was founded, as well as determining the boundaries and districts of boroughs. It was said that the fate of numerous boroughs fell victim to the heliostat and the Drummond light, the instrument that Drummond invented whilst surveying in Ireland.[19]
Abney Level
An Abney level is an instrument used in surveying which consists of a fixed sighting tube, a movable spirit level that is connected to a pointing arm, and a protractor scale. The Abney level is an easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and when used correctly an accurate surveying tool. The Abney level was invented by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843–1920) who was a Royal Engineer, an English astronomer and chemist best known for his pioneering of colour photography and colour vision. Abney invented this instrument under the employment of the Royal School of Military Engineering in Chatham, England, in the 1870s.[20]
H.M. Dockyards
In 1873, Captain Henry Brandreth RE was appointed Director of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, later the Admiralty Works Department. Following this appointment many Royal Engineer officers superintended engineering works at Naval Dockyards in various parts of the world.[21]
Chatham Dockyard
Chatham, being the home of the Corps, meant that the Royal Engineers and the Dockyard had a close relationship since Captain Brandreth's appointment. At the Chatham Dockyard, Captain Thomas Mould RE designed the iron roof trusses for the covered slips, 4, 5 and 6. Slip 7 was designed by Colonel Godfrey Greene RE on his move to the Corps from the Bengal Sappers & Miners. In 1886 Major Henry Pilkington RE was appointed Superintendent of Engineering at the Dockyard, moving on to Director of Engineering at the Admiralty in 1890 and Engineer-in-Chief of Naval Loan Works, where he was responsible for the extension of all major Dockyards at home and abroad.[22]
All members of the Royal Engineers are trained combat engineers and all sappers (privates) and non-commissioned officers also have another trade. These trades include: air conditioning fitter, electrician, general fitter, plant operator mechanic, plumber, bricklayer, plasterer / painter, carpenter & joiner, fabricator, building materials technician, design draughtsman, electrical & mechanical draughtsman, geographic support technician, survey engineer, armoured engineer, driver, engineer IT, engineer logistics specialist, amphibious engineer, bomb disposal specialist, diver or search specialist.[23] They may also undertake the specialist selection and training to qualify as Commandos or Military Parachutists. Women are eligible for all Royal Engineer specialities.[24]
Brigades & Groups
- 8th Engineer Brigade
- 12 Force Support Group[25]
- 21 Engineer Regiment
- 32 Engineer Regiment
- 36 Engineer Regiment
- 25 (Close Support) Engineer Group
- 22 Engineer Regiment
- 26 Engineer Regiment
- 35 Engineer Regiment
- 29 EOD & Search Group[26]
- 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD)
- 101 Engineer Regiment (EOD)
- 11 EOD Regiment RLC
- 36 Engineer Regiment
- 1 Military Working Dog Regiment
- 170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer Group (previously Military Works Force)[27]
- HQ Works Group
- Royal Engineers Specialist Advisory Team (RESAT)
- Technical Information Centre Royal Engineers
- 62 Works Group (Water utilities, water development and well drilling)
- 506 STRE (Water Infrastructure) (Volunteers)
- 519 STRE (Works)
- 523 STRE (Works)
- 521 STRE (Water Development)
- 63 Works Group (Electrical power generation and distribution)
- 504 STRE (Power Infrastructure) (Volunteers)
- 518 STRE (Works)
- 528 STRE (Power)
- 535 STRE (Works)
- 64 Works Group (Fuels, fuel production and distribution)
- 503 STRE (Fuel Infrastructure) (Volunteers)
- 516 STRE (Fuels)
- 524 STRE (Works)
- 527 STRE (Works)
- 65 (Volunteers) Works Group (Civilian infrastructure, railway and ports infrastructure)
- 503 STRE (Fuels)
- 504 STRE (Power)
- 506 STRE (Water)
- 507 STRE (Rail)
- 509 STRE (Ports)
- 510 STRE (Air)
- 66 Works Group (Air Support and geotechnical engineering)
- 510 STRE (Air Support)(Volunteers)
- 517 STRE (Works)
- 522 STRE (Works)
- 530 STRE (Materials)
- 67 Works Group
- 502 STRE (Works)
- 505 STRE (Works)
- HQ Works Group
- 12 Force Support Group[25]
- 21 Engineer Regiment:[28]
- 7 Headquarters and Support Squadron
- 1 Field Squadron Squadron
- 4 Field Squadron Squadron
- 103 (1st Newcastle) Field Squadron [Newcastle/Sunderland(2Tp)]
- 106 (West Riding) Field Squadron [Sheffield/Bradford]
- Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Light Aid Detachment
- 22 Engineer Regiment:[29]
- 6 Headquarters and Support Squadron
- 3 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 5 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 52 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Light Aid Detachment
- 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment – part of 16 Air Assault Brigade[30]
- 12 (Nova Scotia) Headquarters and Support Squadron (Air Assault)
- 9 Parachute Squadron
- 51 Parachute Squadron
- 299 Para Field Squadron (Reserve) [Wakefield/Hull/Gateshead]
- 24 Commando Engineer Regiment – part of 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines (based at Chivenor). Formed in 2008 as part of the Delivering Security in a Changing World review, when the engineering support for 3 Commando Brigade was increased to a full regiment.[31]
- 54 Commando Squadron
- 59 Commando Squadron
- 131 Commando Squadron (Reserve) - based in Kingsbury, Plymouth, Birmingham and Bath
- 26 Engineer Regiment:[32]
- 38 Headquarters and Support Squadron
- 8 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 30 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 33 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 32 Engineer Regiment:[33]
- 2 Headquarters and Support Squadron
- 26 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 31 Armoured Engineer Squadron
- 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) [Hybrid Regiment with Regular & Army Reserve Squadrons]:[34]
- 35 Engineer Regiment:[35]
- 36 Engineer Regiment (Search):[36]
- 50 Headquarters & Support Squadron
- 20 Field Squadron
- 69 Gurkha Field Squadron
- 70 Gurkha Field Support Squadron
- 39 Engineer Regiment:[37]
- 60 Headquarters and Support Squadron (Air Support)
- 10 Field Squadron (Air Support)
- 34 Field Squadron (Air Support)
- 48 Field Squadron (Air Support)
- 53 Field Squadron (Air Support)
- REME Workshop
- 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic):[38]
- 13 Geographic Squadron
- 14 Geographic Squadron
- 16 Geographic Support Squadron
- 135 Geographic Squadron (Reserve)
- 71 Engineer Regiment[39]
- 10 (Orkney) Troop - Kirkwall
- RHQ [Leuchars Station]
- 102 Field Squadron [Paisley/Barnsford Bridge]
- 124 Field Support Squadron [Cumbernauld, Leuchars, Kinloss and Orkney]
- 236 Troop - Kinloss Barracks
- 591 (Antrim Artillery) Field Squadron [Bangor, NI]
- 75 Engineer Regiment (Field)[40]
- 107 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Field Squadron [Birkenhead]
- 202 Field Support Squadron [Manchester]
- 412 Amphibious Engineer Troop(Volunteers) Reserve ( MINDEN, GERMANY )
- 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) [Hybrid Regiment with Regular & Army Reserve Squadrons]:[41]
- Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)[42]
- RHQ Troop [Monmouth]
- 100 Field Squadron [Cwmbran/Bristol/Cardiff/Swansea]
- 225 Field Squadron [Birmingham]
- Jersey Field Squadron [St Helier]
- Engineer and Logistic Staff Corps (Volunteers)[43]
- The Nottinghamshire Band of The Royal Engineers [Nottingham][44]
The Royal School of Military Engineering
The Royal School of Military Engineering is the British Army's Centre of Excellence for Military Engineering, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), and counter terrorist search training. Located on several sites in Chatham, Kent, Camberley in Surrey and Bicester in Oxfordshire the Royal School of Military Engineering offers superb training facilities for the full range of Royal Engineer skills. The RSME was founded by Major (later General Sir) Charles Pasley, as the Royal Engineer Establishment in 1812.[45] It was renamed the School of Military Engineering in 1868 and granted the "Royal" prefix in 1962.[46]
- Royal School of Military Engineering[47]
- Combat Engineer School
- 3 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment
- 55 Training Squadron Royal Engineers
- 57 Training Squadron Royal Engineers
- 63 Training Support Squadron Royal Engineers
- Communication Information Systems Wing
- 3 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment
- Construction Engineer School
- 1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment
- 24 Training Squadron Royal Engineers
- 36 Training Squadron Royal Engineers
- Civil Engineering Wing
- Electrical and Mechanical Wing
- 1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment
- Royal Engineers Warfare Wing (Founded in 2011 and split between Brompton Barracks, Chatham and Gibraltar Barracks at Minley in Hampshire, this is the product of the amalgamation between Command Wing, where Command and Tactics were taught and Battlefield Engineering Wing, where combat engineering training was facilitated.)
- United Kingdom Mine Information and Training Centre
- Defence Explosive Munitions and Search School (formally Defence EOD School and the National Search Centre)
- Royal School of Military Survey (until 1 April 2006)
- Combat Engineer School
- 28 Training Squadron, Army Training Regiment[48]
- Diving Training Unit (Army), (DTU(A))[49]
- Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers (The Band are part of the Corps of Army Music, but wear the uniform of the Royal Engineers)[50]
Corps' Ensign
The Royal Engineers, Ports Section, operated harbours and ports for the army and used mainly specialised vessels such as tugs and dredgers. During the Second World War the Royal Engineers' Blue Ensign was flown from the Mulberry harbours.[51]
Bishop Gundulf, Rochester and King's Engineers
Bishop Gundulf, a monk from the Abbey of Bec in Normandy came to England in 1070 as Archbishop Lafranc's assistant at Canterbury. His talent for architecture had been spotted by King William I and was put to good use in Rochester where he was sent as Bishop in 1077. Almost immediately the King appointed him to supervise the construction of the White Tower, now part of the Tower of London in 1078. Under William Rufus he also undertook building work on Rochester Castle. Having served three Kings of England and earning "the favour of them all", Gundulf is accepted as the first "King's Engineer".[52]
The Institution of Royal Engineers
The Institution of Royal Engineers, the professional institution of the Corps of Royal Engineers, was established in 1875 and in 1923 it was granted its Royal Charter by King George V. The Institution is collocated with the Royal Engineers Museum, within the grounds of the Royal School of Military Engineering at Brompton in Chatham, Kent.[53]
The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers is currently in its 12th volume. The first two volumes were written by Major General Whitworth Porter and published in 1889.[54]
The Sapper is published by the Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust and is a monthly magazine for all ranks.[55]
The Royal Engineers' Association
The Royal Engineers Association was formed to promote and support the Corps among members of the Association in the following ways:[56]
- By fostering esprit de corps and a spirit of comradeship and service.
- By maintaining an awareness of Corps traditions.
- By acting as a link between serving and retired members of the Corps.
- To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their wives, widows and dependants who are in need through poverty.
- To make grants, within Association guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and to other charities which further the objectives of the Association.
Royal Engineers' Yacht Club
The Royal Engineers' Yacht Club, which dates back to 1812, promotes the skill of watermanship in the Royal Engineers.[57]
The Royal Engineers Amateur Football Club
The club was founded in 1863, under the leadership of Major Francis Marindin. Sir Frederick Wall, who was the secretary of The Football Association 1895–1934, stated in his memoirs that the "combination game" was first used by the Royal Engineers A.F.C. in the early 1870s.[58][59][60] Wall states that the "Sappers moved in unison" and showed the "advantages of combination over the old style of individualism".
FA Cup
The Engineers played in the first-ever FA Cup Final, losing 1–0 at Kennington Oval on 16 March 1872, to regular rivals Wanderers.[61] They also lost the 1874 Final, to Oxford University A.F.C..
Their greatest triumph was the 1874–75 FA Cup.[61] In the final against Old Etonians, they drew 1–1 with a goal from Renny-Tailyour and went on to win the replay 2-0 with a goal each from Renny-Tailyour and Stafford.[62]
The winning side was:[62]
- Capt. W. Merriman; Lt. G.H. Sim; Lt. G.C. Onslow; Lt. R.M. Ruck; Lt. P.G. von Donop; Lt. C.K. Wood; Lt. H.E. Rawson; Lt. W.F.H. Stafford; Lt. H. W. Renny-Tailyour; Lt. A. Mein; and Lt. C. Wingfield-Stratford.
A match programme from an Old Etonians FA Cup Final sold in an auction held at Sotheby's, New Bond street. The game was played at Kennington Oval on 25 March 1882 and shot past the £20,000-25,000 estimate to hit £30,000. It was bought at the sale on 13–14 May 2014 appropriately enough, by the Old Etonians Football Club to go on display at Eton College's Museum of Eton Life.[63]
A sword owned by Royal Engineers defender G.H. Sim who played in two FA Cup Finals in 1875 against the Old Etonians is going under the hammer at John Mullock auctions on 15 April 2015.[64] John Mullock has been quoted as stating "Any FA Cup artifacts pre-1900s are like hen's teeth".[65]
Their last FA Cup Final appearance came in 1878, again losing to the Wanderers.[61] They last participated in 1882–83 FA Cup, losing 6–2 in the fourth round to Old Carthusians F.C..[61]
The Engineers' Depot Battalion won the FA Amateur Cup in 1908.[66]
On 7 November 2012, the Royal Engineers played against the Wanderers in a remake of the 1872 FA Cup Final at The Oval.[67] Unlike the actual final, the Engineers won, and by a large margin, 7–1 being the final score.[68]
The Army were represented in the very first international by two members of the Royal Engineers, both playing for England, Lieutenant Charles Arthur Crompton RE and Lieutenant Charles Sherrard RE.[69]
Successor units
Several units have been formed from the Royal Engineers.
- The Air Battalion Royal Engineers (formed 1911) was the precursor of the Royal Flying Corps (formed 1912) which evolved into the Royal Air Force in 1918.[2]
- The Telegraph Troop, founded in 1870,[70]:121 became the Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers who then became the Royal Engineers Signals Service, which in turn became the independent Royal Corps of Signals in 1920.[71]
- The Royal Engineers were responsible for railway and inland waterway transport, port operations and movement control until 1965, when these functions were transferred to the new Royal Corps of Transport. (See also Railway Operating Division.)[72]
- In 1913, the Army Post Office Corps (formed in 1882) and the Royal Engineers Telegraph Reserve (formed in 1884) amalgamated to form the Royal Engineers (Postal Section) Special Reserve. This later became the Defence Postal and Courier Service and remained part of the RE until the formation of the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993 – see (British Forces Post Office).[73]
Notable personnel
- Category:Royal Engineers soldiers
- Category:Royal Engineers officers
Engineering equipment
Order of precedence
|Preceded by
Royal Regiment of Artillery
|Order of Precedence
| Succeeded by
Royal Corps of Signals
Victoria Cross
The following Royal Engineers have been awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.[74]
- Tom Edwin Adlam, 1916, Thiepval, France
- Adam Archibald, 1918, Ors, France
- Fenton John Aylmer, 1891, Nilt Fort, India
- Mark Sever Bell, 1874, Battle Of Ordashu, Ashanti (now Ghana)
- John Rouse Merriott Chard, 1879, Rorke's Drift, South Africa
- Brett Mackay Cloutman, 1918, Pont-Sur-Sambre, France
- Clifford Coffin, 1917, Westhoek, Belgium
- James Morris Colquhoun Colvin, 1897, Mohmand Valley, India
- James Lennox Dawson, 1915, Hohenzollern Redoubt, France
- Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones, 1900, Ladysmith, South Africa
- Thomas Frank Durrant, 1942, St. Nazaire, France
- Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay, 1918, Catillon, France
- Gerald Graham, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- William Hackett, 1916, Givenchy, France
- Reginald Clare Hart, 1879, Bazar Valley, Afghanistan
- Lanoe Hawker, 1915 {While serving with the RFC}
- Charles Alfred Jarvis, 1914, Jemappes, Belgium
- Frederick Henry Johnson, 1915, Hill 70, France
- William Henry Johnston, 1914, Missy, France
- Frank Howard Kirby, 1900, Delagoa Bay Railway, South Africa
- Cecil Leonard Knox, 1918, Tugny, France
- Edward Pemberton Leach, 1879, Maidanah, Afghanistan
- Peter Leitch, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- William James Lendrim, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Wilbraham Oates Lennox, 1854, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Henry MacDonald, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Cyril Gordon Martin, 1915, Spanbroekmolen on the Messines Ridge, Belgium
- James McPhie, 1918, Aubencheul-Au-Bac, France
- Philip Neame, 1914, Neuve Chapelle, France
- John Perie, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Claude Raymond, 1945, Talaku, Burma (now Myanmar)
- John Ross, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Michael Sleavon, 1858, Jhansi, India
- Arnold Horace Santo Waters, 1918, Ors, France
- Thomas Colclough Watson, 1897, Mamund Valley, India
- Theodore Wright, 1914, Mons, Belgium
The Sapper VCs
In 1998, HMSO published an account of the 55 British and Commonwealth 'Sappers' who have been awarded the Victoria Cross. The book was written by Colonel GWA Napier, former Royal Engineers officer and a former Director of the Royal Engineers Museum. The book defines a 'Sapper' as any "member of a British or Empire military engineer corps, whatever their rank, speciality or national allegiance", and is thus not confined to Royal Engineers.[75]
- Rochester Cathedral, Kent has major historical links with the Corps and contains many memorials including stained glass, mosaics and plaques. The cathedral hosts services on the annual Corps Memorial Weekend and is supported by the Corps on Remembrance Sunday.
- Royal Engineers First World War memorial at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
- National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire
- The memorial to the Royal Engineers at Arromanches, the site of the Mulberry Harbours during the Second World War[76]
See also
- Mine Information Training Centre
- Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment
- Bermuda Volunteer Engineers, a disbanded territorial unit that replaced the Regular Army RE detachment of the Bermuda Garrison in 1930.
- Canadian Military Engineers, created in 1903 to provide a replacement for the RE in Canada
- List of international professional associations
- The Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors
- Institution of Engineers
- 1 2 3 "A brief history of the Royal Engineers" (PDF). The Masons Livery Company. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- 1 2 "The Air Battalion". The RAF Museum. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "Tunnelling Companies in the Great War". Tunnellers Memorial. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ British Army Website: Corps of Royal Engineers Badges and Emblems
- ↑ Anon (1916) Regimental Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army. 5th Ed. London: Gale and Polden Ltd. p. 36
- ↑ "Royal Engineers Museum". British listed buildings. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ War Office, His Majesty's Army, 1938
- ↑ Smithers, A. J. (1991). Honourable Conquests: An Account of the Enduring Work of the Royal Engineers Throughout the Empire. Pen & Sword Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85052-725-4.
- ↑ "The Royal Engineers: Colonel Richard Clement Moody". Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 90, Issue 1887, 1887, pp. 453-455, OBITUARY. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD CLEMENT MOODY, R.E., 1813-1181.
- ↑ "Charles Lucas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "Royal Albert Hall". Famous Wonders. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ Cotton, Lady (1900). General Sir Arthur Cotton, RE, KCSI: His Life and Work.
- ↑ Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin Campbell. The Indian Biographical Dictionary. 1915.
- ↑ Watson, Ken. "Bye By: The Story of Lieutenant-Colonel John By, R.E. and his fall from grace". Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- 1 2 Ingleton, Roy (2012). "Fortress Kent". Pen & Sword Military. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-1848848887.
- ↑ "Joshua Jebb on Pentonville Prison, London". Elton Engineering Books. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ↑ Fenwick, SC. "Boundary Commissions – 1832–1911". Corps History – Part 12: Engineers in a Civic role (1820–1911). Royal Engineers Museum.
- ↑ "Demonstrations 19 – Limelight". Leeds University. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Abney, William de Wiveleslie". Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. 2014. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-1-4419-9917-7.
- ↑ "Woolwich Dockyard Area" (PDF). University College London. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Chatham Royal Naval Barracks" (PDF). Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Your guide to the Royal Engineers" (PDF). Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Army life: your guide to the Royal Engineers" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. p. 3. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- ↑ "12 (Air Support) Engineer Group webpage".
- ↑ "29 EOD & Search Group webpage".
- ↑ "170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer Group webpage".
- ↑ "21 Engineer Regiment". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "22 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "23 Engr Regt (Air Assault)". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ↑ "24 (Commando) Engineer Regiment". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "26 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "32 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "Bomb Disposal and Search Specialists". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "35 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "36 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "39 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "42 Engr Regt". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "71 Engineer Regiment". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "75 Engineer Regiment". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ "101 Engr Regt (EOD)". British Army. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ "Royal Monmouthshire RE". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ↑ "Staff Corps Membership". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ "The Nottinghamshire Band of The Royal Engineers". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ Corps History Part 6 Royal Engineers Museum
- ↑ Corps History Part 17 Royal Engineers Museum
- ↑ "Royal School of Military Engineering". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Army Training Centre Pirbright say farewell to 76 Battery Royal Artillery". Royal Artillery Association. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Diving Training Unit (Army)". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Flag, Blue Ensign: Royal Engineers". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Towers that Gundulf Built". Kate Shrewsday. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Institution of Royal Engineers". Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE)". Articles. Royal Engineers Museum. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ↑ "The Sapper Magazine". Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Royal Engineers' Association". Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Sapper Sailing". Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ Wall, Sir Frederick (2005). 50 Years of Football, 1884–1934. Soccer Books Limited. ISBN 1-86223-116-8.
- ↑ Cox, Richard (2002) The Encyclopaedia of British Football, Routledge, United Kingdom
- ↑ History of Football
- 1 2 3 4 Royal Engineers A.F.C. at the Football Club History Database
- 1 2 When the Sappers won the FA Cup 1875 Royal Engineers Museum
- ↑ Antiques Trade Gazette 20 May 2013
- ↑ John Mullocks Auctions
- ↑ BBC News 6 September 2012
- ↑ History Section - Welfare and Sports
- ↑ Cunningham, Sam (7 November 2012). "Wanderers and Royal Engineers set for FA Cup final remake ... 140 years after original showdown". Daily Mail. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ Al-Samarrai, Riath (7 November 2012). "Engineers steamroll Wanderers 7-1 in repeat of first ever FA Cup final at The Oval ... 140 years after the original". Daily Mail. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ Army Players and International Representation (1871 onwards)
- ↑ Porter, Maj Gen Whitworth (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol II. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers.
- ↑ "Royal Signals Heritage". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ Aves, William A. T. (2009). "The Railway Operating Division on the Western Front : the Royal Engineers in France and Belgium 1915-1919". Donington : Shaun Tyas. ISBN 978-1900289993.
- ↑ "Tommy's Mail & the Army Post Office". World War 1 postcards. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Royal Engineers". Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "History Section - Sappers VCs". Royal Engineers Museum. Archived from the original on 10 August 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ↑ "Monument to the Royal Engineers at Arromanches Saint-Combe-de-Fresne France". Retrieved 30 January 2015.
Further reading
- British Garrison Berlin 1945–1994, "No where to go", W. Durie ISBN 978-3-86408-068-5
- Follow the Sapper: An Illustrated History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Colonel Gerald Napier RE. Published by The Institution of Royal Engineers, 2005. ISBN 0-903530-26-0.
- The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners: From the Formation of the Corps in March 1772, to the Date when Its Designation was Changed to that of Royal Engineers, in October 1856, by Thomas William John Connolly. Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1857.
- History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Whitworth Porter, Charles Moore Watson. Published by Longmans, Green, 1889.
- The Royal Engineer, by Francis Bond Head. Published by John Murray, 1869.
- Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers. Published by The Corps, 1874.
- Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers, Royal Engineers' Institute (Great Britain). Published by Royal Engineer Institute, 1892.
- The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan, by Edward Warren Caulfeild Sandes. Published by Institution of Royal Engineers, 1937.
- Citizen Soldiers of the Royal Engineers Transportation and Movements and the Royal Army Service Corps, 1859 to 1965, by Gerard Williams, Michael Williams. Published by Institution of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1969.
- Royal Engineers, by Derek Boyd. Published by Cooper, 1975. ISBN 0-85052-197-1.
- The Royal Engineers, by Terry Gander. Published by I. Allan, 1985. ISBN 0-7110-1517-1.
- Versatile Genius: The Royal Engineers and Their Maps: Manuscript Maps and Plans of the Eastern Frontier, 1822–1870, by University of the Witwatersrand Library, Yvonne Garson. Published by University of the Witwatersrand Library, 1992. ISBN 1-86838-023-8.
- The History of the Royal Engineer Yacht Club, by Sir Gerald Duke. Published by Pitman Press, 1982. ISBN 0-946403-00-7.
- From Ballon to Boxkite. The Royal Engineers and Early British Aeronautics, by Malcolm Hall. Published by Amberley, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84868-992-3.
- A Harbour Goes to War. The story of the Mulberry and the men who made it happen, by Evans, J. Palmer, E & Walter, R. Published by Brook House, 2000. ISBN 1-873547-30-7.
- Danger UXB. The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams, by James Owen. Published by Little, Brown, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4087-0195-9.
- Designed to Kill. Bomb Disposal from World War I to the Falklands, by Major Arthur Hogben. Published by Patrick Stevens, 1987. ISBN 0-85059-865-6.
- UXB Malta. Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940–44, by S A M Hudson. Published by The History Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7524-5635-5.
- The Underground War. Vimy Ridge to Arras, by Robinson, P & Cave, N. Published by Pen and Sword, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84415-976-5.
- XD Operations. Secret British Missions Denying Oil to the Nazis, by Brazier, C. C. H. Published by Pen and Sword, 2004. ISBN 1-84415-136-0.
- Blowing Our Bridges. A Memoir from Dunkirk to Korea via Normandy, by Maj Gen Tony Younger. Published by Pen and Sword, 2004. ISBN 1-84415-051-8.
- Code Name Mulberry. The Planning - Building & Operation of the Normandy Harbours, by Guy Hartcup. Published by Pen and Sword, 2006. ISBN 1-84415-434-3.
- Summon up the Blood. The war diary of Corporal J A Womack, Royal Engineers, by Celia Wolfe. Published by Leo Cooper, 1997. ISBN 978-0-85052-537-3.
- Fight, Dig and Live. The Story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War, by George Cooper. Published by Pen and Sword, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84884-684-5.
- Stick & String, by Terence Tinsley. Published by Buckland Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-7212-0897-5.
- Honourable Conquests. An account of the enduring works of the Royal Engineers throughout the Empire, by Smithers, A. J. Published by Leo Cooper, 1991. ISBN 0-85052-725-2.
- Never a Shot in Anger, by Gerald Mortimer. Published by Square One Publications, 1993. ISBN 1-872017-71-1.
- Platoon Commander (Memoirs of a Royal Engineers Officer), by Peter Steadman. Published by Pentlandite Books, 2001. ISBN 1-85821-901-9.
- Commander Royal Engineers. The Headquarters of the Royal Engineers at Arnhem, by John Sliz. Published by Travelouge 219, 2013. ISBN 978-1-927679-04-3.
- The Lonely War. A story of Bomb Disposal in World War II by on who was there, by Eric Wakeling. Published by Square One Publication, 1994. ISBN 1-872017-84-3.
- Bombs & Bobby Traps, by H. J. Hunt. Published by Romsey Medal Centre, 1986. ISBN 0-948251-19-0.
- With the Royal Engineers in the Peninsula & France, by Charles Boothby. Published by Leonaur, 2011. ISBN 978-0-85706-781-4.
- Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, by Lt Col L. J. Hall. Published by Naval & Military Press, 1919. ISBN 1-84342-952-7.
- A Short History of the Royal Engineers, by The Institution of Royal Engineers. Published by The Institution of Royal Engineers, 2006. ISBN 0-903530-28-7.
- Don't Annoy The Enemy, by Eric Walker. Published by Gernsey Press Co. ISBN Not on publication.
- Oh! To be a Sapper, by M. J. Salmon. Published by The Institution of Royal Engineers. ISBN 0-9524911-4-1.
- Middle East Movers, Royal Engineers Transportation in the Suez Canal Zone 1947–1956, Hugh Mackintosh. Published by North Kent Books, 2000. ISBN 0-948305-10-X.
- Mediterranean Safari March 1943 - October 1944, by A. P. de T. Daniell. Published by Orphans Press, 2000. ISBN 0-7212-0816-9.
- A Sapper's War, by Leonard Watkins. Published by Minerva Press, 1996. ISBN 1-85863-715-5.
- A Game of Soldiers by C. Richard Eke. Published by Digaprint Ltd, 1997. ISBN 0-9534264-0-8.
- Wrong Again Dan! Karachi to Krakatoa, by Dan Raschen RE. Published by Buckland Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-7212-0638-7.
- Send Port & Pyjamas!, by Dan Raschen RE. Published by Buckland Publications, 1987. ISBN 0-7212-0763-4.
- Highly Explosive, The Exploits of Major Bill Hartley MBE GM late of Bomb Disposal, by John Frayn Turner. Published by George G. Harappa & Co Ltd, 1967. ISBN Not on Publication.
- Sapper Martin, The Secret War Diary of Jack Martin, by Richard Van Emden. Published by Bloomsbury, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4088-0311-0.
- Drainage Manual - Revised Edition, 1907, by Locock and Tyndale.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Royal Engineers.
- Official Royal Engineers MOD Site
- Institution of Royal Engineers
- Royal Engineers – Continuous Professional Development
- Site for finding current and former serving members of the Corps
- 7 Fd Sqn Memories
- 29 Fld Sqn (vets) Association
- 60 HQ & Sp Sqn History
- Royal Engineers Association
- Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive
- Royal Engineers Band
- The Royal Engineers in Halifax: Photographing the Garrison City, 1870–1885
- The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers, an online history and biographies of the Royal Engineers in colonial-era British Columbia
- Airborne Engineers Association
- Engineering Council UK
- Rochester Cathedral
- "History of 555 Field Company Royal Engineers in WW2"
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