Royal Engineers Collection

Major John Rouse Merriott Chard, VC, 1881. Chard (1847-1897), then a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, commanded the British defenders at Rorkes Drift, South Africa, in January 1879

Funeral, on Sunday last, of Sergeant Dransfield...Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers, 1865. Creator: C. R
Funeral, on Sunday last, of Sergeant Dransfield, R.E., instructor to the 1st Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers, 1865. '...a few days ago, in Victoria Park [in East London],...Sergeant Dransfield

The International Naval Festival at Portsmouth: Review on Southsea Common, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The International Naval Festival at Portsmouth: Review on Southsea Common, 1865. Illustration of a parade of troops. '...the line was formed...in full view of the combined fleets anchored at

The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph, 1865. Portrait of '...a most able and active officer of the Royal Engineers...This highly-promising

R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918 (date created or published later). Railroad construction during World War I, described by the Imperial War Museum as "Battle of the Drocourt-Queant

British military bridge, Flanders, 5 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British military bridge, Flanders, 5 Aug 1917. British infantry soldiers crossing the bridge over the Yser canal at Boezinge, West Flanders, Belgium, August 5, 1917

Military Bazaar at Chatham, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Military Bazaar at Chatham, [in Kent], 1858. A grand military bazaar in aid of the funds of the Central Association for Improving the Condition of the Wives and Families of Soldiers

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Crimean War. The appliances for laying out the wire over irregular ground, and through marshes and rivers

The Siege of Sebastopol - Gordon's Attack with a Lancaster Gun, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - Gordon's Attack with a Lancaster Gun, 1854. Crimean War: British soldiers with heavy artillery:.on the crest of a precipice, is a one-gun battery

Siege Operations at Chatham - Springing a Mine, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Siege Operations at Chatham - Springing a Mine, 1854. Military exercises in Kent, attended by Prince Albert. A column of the 34th then advanced from Gillingham Tower under a heavy fire from the 32

Sappers repairing the road between Schumla and Varna, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sappers repairing the road between Schumla and Varna, 1854. British soldiers during the Crimean War. The fortified town of Schumla, now Shumen in Bulgaria, was strategically important

The late Brigadier-General Tylden, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The late Brigadier-General Tylden, 1854. Portrait of William Burton Tylden, British Army officer of the Royal Engineers who served for 43 years....he served at Gibraltar and in Sicily

The Funeral of Lord Napier of Magdala; The body being removed from the Tower, escorted... 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Funeral of Lord Napier of Magdala; The body being removed from the Tower, escorted by non-commissioned officers of the Royal Engineers, 1890

Lord Wolsely unveiling the memorial windows in Rochester Cathedral to General Gordon and the Offic Creator: Unknown
Lord Wolsely unveiling the memorial windows in Rochester Cathedral to General Gordon and the Officers and men of the Royal Engineers who fell in the Waterloo, Peninsular and Soudan Campaigns, 1888

Lieut. -General Sir Charles Warren, G. C. M. G. 1900. Creator: Elliott & Fry
Lieut.-General Sir Charles Warren, G.C.M.G. 1900. Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927) an officer in the British Royal Engineers who commanded combat during the Second Boer War

General Robertss Staff, Kandahar Expedition, c1880, (1901). Creator: Bourne & Shepherd
General Robertss Staff, Kandahar Expedition, c1880, (1901). Portrait of General Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914), commander of British forces in Afghanistan

Colonel Nugent, Commanding the Royal Engineers, c1882
Colonel Nugent, Commanding the Royal Engineers, c1880. Episode of the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. IV, by James Grant

Mine crater at La Boiselle, the Somme, France, World War I, c1916-c1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Mine crater at La Boiselle, the Somme, France, World War I, c1916-c1918. The crater was created by a massive underground mine placed in tunnels beneath the German lines by British sappers of

Pontoon bridge across the Modder River, Boer War, South Africa, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Pontoon bridge across the Modder River, Boer War, South Africa, 1900. The bridge was built by the Royal Engineers in just two hours. Stereoscopic card

Royal Engineers repairing a railway destroyed by the Boers, Kroonstad, South Africa, 1900. Stereoscopic card

General Staff, 1902. Artist: R Simkin
General Staff, 1902. From left to right: Aide de Camp, Principal Royal Engineer, Field Marshal, Principal Royal Artillery Officer, Lieutenant General, Colonel on the Staff,

Royal Engineers, c1890. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles
Royal Engineers, c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

Sir Gerald Graham, British Lieutenant-General, 1893. Artist: E Stodart
Sir Gerald Graham, British Lieutenant-General, 1893. Graham (1831-1899) received the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Crimea in 1855 when a 23 year-old Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers

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