Aberdeen Fortress Royal Engineers information

The Aberdeen Fortress Royal Engineers was a Scottish volunteer unit of the British Army formed in 1908. Its main role was defence of the Scottish coast...

The Dundee Fortress Royal Engineers was a Scottish volunteer unit of the British Army formed in 1908. Its main role was the defence of the harbours and...

The Renfrewshire Fortress Royal Engineers was a Scottish volunteer unit of the British Army under various titles from 1888. Its main role was defence of...

Singapore Fortress Royal Engineers Singapore Fortress Royal Engineers Headquarters, Singapore 30th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers 34th Fortress Company...

in Orkney to defend the Scapa Flow naval base, with a fortress company of the Royal Engineers to support them. The Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland...

amalgamation of the Depot Regiment, Royal Engineers and 12th Royal School of Military Engineer Regiments, Royal Engineers 3rd Royal School of Military Engineering...

1st Armoured Division) 38th Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, Claro Barracks, (-2x squadrons to Commander Engineers BAOR, to support the RAF Germany...

military operation, codenamed Operation Fork, was conducted by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. In time, some of the British garrison was replaced by Canadian...

the advance of artillery pressed military engineers to devise stronger fortifications for important royal strongholds. Tower houses and castles were...

Manchester Detachment Nottingham Detachment Royal Marines Reserve Scotland, at HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard Aberdeen Detachment Dundee Detachment Edinburgh...

Camp) Royal Engineers and Queen's Gurkha Engineers 1 Field Squadron, 22nd Fortress Company, Royal Engineers (circa 1939) 40th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers...

The Royal Scots Navy (or Old Scots Navy) was the navy of the Kingdom of Scotland from its origins in the Middle Ages until its merger with the Kingdom...

by landing parties from the Royal Navy. The Royal Engineers in 1837 was still a corps of specialist officers. The Royal Sappers and Miners was composed...

fought against Japanese forces in Magazine Gap, alongside HKVDC and Royal Engineers. They also manned machine guns on Mount Cameron. Commanding officer...

bases in Scotland led some to use the euphemism "Fortress Scotland". See Spaven, Malcolm (1983) Fortress Scotland. London. Pluto Press in association with...

Whitworth (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Vol. I. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers. Royle, Trevor (2000), Crimea: The Great...

reconstruction that saw the medieval fortress converted into a more comfortable home. As the founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen, the 5th Earl valued Dunnottar...

were Colonel Ronald Eagleson Gordon MC of the Royal Engineers en Captain Colin Eccles Dick of the 2nd Royal Irish Fusilies who died in the Second Boer War...

Italian engineers lifted mines from the west side of the minefields to create a supply route through to the Axis side. Operation Aberdeen, an attack...