* 1730-A Belgian Engineer, the Marquis of Verboom, Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Engineer Corps, who had taken part in the 1727 siege, arrived in San Roque commissioned by the Spanish government to design a line of fortifications across the isthmus.

Henri Gautier, a French Royal Engineer, recognized the " natural slope " of different soils in 1717, an idea later known as the soil's angle of repose.

A Royal Engineer in the 252nd Tunnelling Company confirmed this, saying after the war that after he complained about the earlier time to the VIII Corps staff, they told him that the reason for the time was that they " feared the results of their men going across.

Kitchener, then an officer in the Royal Engineers, joined fellow Royal Engineer Claude R. Conder, and between 1874 and 1877 they surveyed what is today Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, returning to England only briefly in 1875 after an attack by locals in the Galilee, at Safed.

On their arrival, the British Royal Engineer tunnelling companies became actively engaged in offensive mining against German miners, first stopping the German underground advance and then developing a defensive strategy that prevented the Germans from gaining a tactical advance through their mining activities.

Units in 1 CMBG include Lord Strathcona's Horse ( Royal Canadians ), 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, two of the three regular force battalions of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and various headquarters, service, and support elements.

A team of Royal Engineer ( RE ) officers was assembled at the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment ( MEXE ), in Barrack Road Christchurch, Dorset, in 1941 and 1942 ; among them were Robin Foulkes, Darrell Herbert, John de Waele, and Bill Buckle, all R. E.

* Francis Fowke-Royal Engineer designer of the Royal Albert Hall

* Royal Engineer

The problem of UXBs was further complicated when Royal Engineer bomb disposal personnel began to encounter munitions fitted with anti-handling devices e. g. the Luftwaffe's ZUS40 anti-removal bomb fuze of 1940.

The Royal Engineers of 33 Engineer Regiment ( EOD ) provide EOD expertise for air dropped munitions in peace time and conventional munitions on operations, as well as battle area clearance and High Risk Search in support of improvised explosive device disposal.

* William Twiss, ( 1745 – 1827 ), Royal Engineer and designer of the Martello Tower, lived in Bingley on retirement and is buried in All Saints Church, Bingley.

The division was made up of three brigades of infantry ( two parachute, one glider borne ), supporting artillery and anti-tank batteries and substantial Royal Engineer units, as well as supporting elements such as Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Army Medical Corps units.

The Airlanding Brigade plus 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Royal Artillery, Royal Engineer and medical units and Divisional HQ would land on LZs ' S ' and ' Z ' and move to secure the drop zones and landing zones for the following days drops, whilst the three battalions of the parachute brigade would arrive at DZ ' X ' and follow three separate routes into Arnhem to secure the bridges.

The team used specially built Avon inflatables and modified Royal Engineer Assault boats to navigate the formidable rapids.

The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps transport and supply elements were combined with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps to form the Logistics Branch The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps clerical trades were merged with the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps and the Royal Canadian Postal Corps to form the Administration Branch ( later merged with the Logistics Branch ) Other " corps ", included: Canadian Engineer Corps, Signalling Corps, Corps of Guides, Canadian Women's Army Corps, Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps, Canadian Forestry Corps, Canadian Provost Corps and Canadian Intelligence Corps.

Later that evening a portion of the No. 2 Column under Brevet Colonel Anthony Durnford, late of the Royal Engineers, arrived at the drift and camped on the Zulu bank, where it remained through the next day.

Late on the evening of 21 January, Durnford was ordered to Isandlwana, as was a small detachment of No. 5 Field Company, Royal Engineers, commanded by Lieutenant John Chard, which had arrived on the 19th to repair the pontoons which bridged the Buffalo.

Between 1993 and 1998 the part of Stonehouse to the west of Durnford Street ( including the Royal William Victualling Yard ) was designated as one of the three areas of the city under control of Plymouth Development Corporation.

The existing star-shaped fortifications were built by the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1831 under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Elias Walker Durnford of the Royal Engineers, and incorporated a section of the French enceinte ( enclosure ) of 1745.

Durnford, Colonel Commandant of Royal Engineers.

Durnford returned to England to enter the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1848.

Between 1861 and 1864 Durnford commanded No. 27 Field Company, Royal Engineers, at Gibraltar.

* Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers biographies ( Anthony William Durnford )

He excelled at sports, playing well at cricket for Durnford and he was a schoolboy international footballer and later played golf for the Royal Navy.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

The Royal Lao Army, on the other hand, was paid and equipped with American funds.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

But the Royal Motel in Shamrock was the only one that offered the comfort and security of a storm cellar.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

It passed through various hands and collections into the Royal Museum at Paris, and was engraved by the Chevalier Visconti.

A Serene Highness by birth, Ena, as she was known, was raised to Royal Highness status a month before her wedding to prevent the union from being viewed as unequal.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches.

* Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

It was created by a deed which he signed on June 7, 1901, and it was incorporated by Royal Charter on August 21, 1902.

From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

There was also formerly a Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

The Act of Settlement was thus passed and granted Royal Assent in 1701.