Below is a selective list of books referring
to the history of the Corps of Royal Engineers, it is
by no means an exhaustive list.
Institution of Royal Engineers Publications
A guide to the Royal Engineers Museum.
A Short History. The Royal Engineers.
Compiled by Maj DP Aston RE (Institution of Royal Engineers,
Chatham, 2nd Edition 2006)
Follow The Sapper By Gerald
Napier (Institute of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 2005)
ISBM 0-903530-26-0
The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers (Institution
of Royal Engineers, Chatham)
| Volume |
Content |
Author/Publish
date |
| I |
1066-1806: Gibraltar, War of the Spanish Succession
1702-1713, Peninsular 1809-14, American War 1812,
Crimean War 1854-56, Indian Mutiny, China War 1857-1860. |
Maj Gen W Porter,
1889 |
| II |
1847-1885: Abyssinia, Ashanti, South Africa 1847-85,
Afghanistan 1878-81, Egypt 1882-85, Board of Ordnance,
Survey in India, North America and Palestine, Railways
and Telegraph, Biographical Sketches |
Maj Gen W Porter,
1889 |
| III |
1886-1912: Sudan Campaigns 1885-99, Boer War 1899-1902,
Survey. |
Col Sir Charles M Watson, 1914 |
| IV |
1885-192: Gordon in China, India, Training, Fortifications,
Torpedoes, Submarine Mines. |
Brig Gen W Baker Brown
1952 |
| V |
World War I: Home Front, Western Front and Italy. |
The Editor,
1952 |
| VI |
World War I: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine. |
The Editor,
1952 |
| VII |
World War I: Mesopotamia, East Africa and inter
War 1918-1938. |
The Editor,
1952 |
| VIII |
World War II: 1938-48, France and Belgium 1939-40,
Norway, Middle East, East Africa, Western Desert,
North West Africa and Home Front. |
Maj Gen Pakenham-Walsh, 1957 |
| IX |
World War II: 1938-48, Sicily and Italy, Far East,
North West Europe 1944-1945, minor and non-operational
areas, Post War 1945-48. |
Maj Gen Pakenham-Walsh, 1958 |
| X |
1948-1960: Suez, Cyprus, Arab Legation and Glubb
Pasha, Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Nuclear Test Programme,
Bomb Disposal, Survey, Postal and Courier Service,
Equipment. |
The Editor
1986 |
| XI |
1960-1980: BAOR and Nato, Aden, Oman, Cyprus,
Northern Ireland, RAF Support, Bomb Disposal, Survey,
Postal and Courier Service. |
The Editor,
1993 |
| XII |
Currently being written |
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All volumes give information on organisation and peacetime
and/or civilian works.
The Military Engineer in India
(Vol I + II): Lt Col EWC Sandes
The Indian Sappers and Miners:
Lt Col EWC Sandes (Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham,
1948)
Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan
: Lt Col EWC Sandes (Institution of Royal Engineers,
Chatham, 1937)
The School of Military Engineering 1812-1909
: Col BR Ward (Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham,
1909)
The Portraits and Silver of the RE Headquarters
Mess, Chatham.: J M Lambert (Institution
of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1963)
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General Histories
The Royal Engineers - Famous Regiments
Edited: Lt Gen Sir Brian Horrocks (Leo Cooper, London
1975) ISBN 0 85052 1971
The Royal Engineer : Rt Hon
Sir Francis B Head (John Murray, London 1869)
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
: Capt (Quartermaster) T W J Connolly
(Longman Brown et al., London 1857)
Fortress Britain : Andrew Saunders (Beaufort) ISBN 1 85512 000 3
Terriers and Sappers: Lineages of the Reserve Regiments and Squadrons of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1908-1998 : Dr Graham Watson (Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Militia)
Army Service Records of the First World War : William Spencer ISBN 1 903365 23 6 Pub: PRO
Martello Towers : Sheila Sutcliffe ISBN 0 7153 5607 0 Pub: David & Charles
My Ancestor was in the British Army : M J Watts & C T Watts ISBN 0 946789 47 9 Pub: Society of Genealogists
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Aeronautics/Flight
The History of Early British Aeronautics.
: Brig P W L Brooke-Smith. An offprint from a Royal
Engineers Journal article.
The Birth of Military Aviation. Britain 1903-14. : Hugh Driver (Royal Historical Society)
ISBN 0 86193 234 X
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Badges
British Battle Insignia, Vols 1 and 2 (Osprey Publishing) ISBN 0850457394 & ISBN 0850457270
Military Badge Collecting : John Gaylor 3rd ed (Seeker & Warburg 1983) ISBN 0 436 173557
Military "Sweetheart" Brooches : K.W. Jarmin (Lavensham Press) ISBN 0 950754307
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Biography
Glubb Pasha: The Life and Times of Sir John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the Arab Legion : Trevor Royal ISBN 0 356 17679 7 Pub: Little, Brown and Company
Kitchener : John Pollock (Constable and Robinson) ISBN 184119462X
Charley Gordon: An eminent Victorian reassessed : Charles Chrevenix Trench ISBN 0 7139 0895 5
Pub: Allen Lane
Gordon : John Pollock (Constable) ISBN 0094685606
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Bomb Disposal
Designed to Kill - Bomb Disposal from World War
One to the Falklands. : Maj Arthur Hogben (Patrick
Stephens 1987) ISBN 0 85059 865 6#
The Danger of UXBs. Collected stories of Bomb Disposal heroism in World War II. : Lt Col E E Wakeling (D B Publishing 1966) ISBN 0 9525799 2 8
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Bridging
One more river to cross : J.Joiner (Pen and Sword Books) ISBN 0 850 527880
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Landmines
The History of Landmines
: M. Croll (Leo Cooper) ISBN 0 850 526280
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Medals
The Sapper VCs - The Story of Valour in the Royal Engineers and its Associated Corps : Gerald Napier (London: The Stationary Office 1998) ISBN 0 11 772835 7
The Medal Yearbook 2005 : James Mackay, John W. Russell (editor) (Token Publishing) ISBN 1870192664
Ribbons & Medals - Naval, Military, Air Force and Civil : Captain H. Taprell Dorling DSO RN "Taffrail" (Spink and Son Ltd) out of print
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Postal
Mailshot - The History of the Forces Postal & Courier Services : E Wells (DPCS, London, 1987) ISBN 0 951300903
Proceedings of the Army Post Office Corps
in South Africa 1899-1902 : AGM Batten
(PFSA, Bloemfontein, 1983).
Tommy Atkins Letters - The History of the British Army Postal Service
from 1795 : PB Boyden (National Army
Museum, London, 1990).
Operation Overlord - History of the work
of the Army Postal Service in relation to Overlord
: Brig KS Holmes (Postal History Society No 38, London
1984).
Early Forces Mail : B Jay (Stuart Rossiter Trust
Fund, London, 1997).
The Postal History of the British Army in World War 1 - Before and after 1903 to 1929 : A Kennedy and G Crabb (George Crabb, Epsom, 1977).
History of British Army Postal Service Vol I 1882-1903 Edited : EB Proud (Proud-Bailey, Heathfield, 1982).
History of British Army Postal Service Vol II 1903-1927 : EB Proud (Proud-Bailey, Heathfield, 1980).
History of British Army Postal Service Vol III 1927-1963 : EB Proud (Proud-Bailey, Heathfield, 1982).
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Railways
The Longmoor Military Railway. : D W Ronald and R J Carter (Newton Abbot 1974) ISBN 0 7153 6357 3
Steam Traction in the Royal Engineers. : Col J Nowers
(North Kent Books)
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Survey/Mapping
The History of the Ordnance Survey. Edited : W A
Seymour (1987) ISBN 0 7129 0979 6
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Victorian
Reflections from the Bridge - the Victorian sapper in photographs : Col K Cima (Baron Birch, London, 1994)
Red Earth - Royal Engineers and the Zulu War 1879. RE Museum Special Exhibition Souvenir Booklet 1996
Honourable Conquests - An Account of the Enduring Work of the Royal Engineers throughout the Empire. : A J Smithers (Leo Cooper, London 1991) ISBN 0 85052 725 2
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World War One
War Underground. : Alexander Barrie (Tom Donovan Publishing Ltd) ISBN 1 871 075 00 4
Beneath Flanders Fields - The Tunnellers War 1914-18 : Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and John Vandewalle (Spellmount Publishing) ISBN 1-86227-237-9
Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade. : Maj Gen C H Foulkes (Edinburgh and London 1936)
Chemical Soldiers. British Gas Warfare in World War I. : Donald Richter (University Press of Kansas 1992) ISBN 0 7006 0544 4
Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia (Naval and Military Press Ltd) ISBN 1843429527
Before endeavours fade: A guide to the Battlefields of the First World War : Rose E.B. Coombs MBE (After the Battle) ISBN 0 900913274
The Kitchener Enigma : Trevor Royle ISBN 0 7181 2385 9 Pub: Trevor Royle
Artillery's Astrologers: A History of British Survey and Mapping on the Western Front 1914-1918
: Peter Chasseaud ISBN 0951 2080 2 0 Pub: Mapbooks
Pillboxes on the Western Front : Peter Oldham ISBN
0 85052 418 0 Pub: Leo Cooper
The Somme: A New Panoramic Perspective.
Peter Barton (Constable & Robinson, London, 2006)
ISBN13: 978-1-84529-3994
The Battlefields of the First World War:
The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front.
Peter Barton (Constable and Robinson, London 2005) ISBN
1-84119-745-9
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Water Supply France }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Miscellaneous }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Work under the Director of Works France }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Signal Service France }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Geological Work on Western Front }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Bridging }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Military Mining }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Supply of Engineer Stores and Equipment }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Water Supply Egypt and Palestine }
Work of RE in the European War 1914-19 Experimental Section }
All published : Institution of Royal Engineers.
Available from local libraries through Inter Library loan service
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World War Two
D Day June 1944 and the Royal Engineers. RE Museum Special Exhibition Souvenir Booklet 1996.
A Harbour Goes to War. The story of Mulberry Harbour and the men who made it happen. (Brooke House Publishing, Scotland 2000) ISBN 1 873547 307
Code Name Mulberry: The planning, building and operation of the Normandy Harbours : Guy Hartcup (David Charles) ISBN 07153 73889
The Danger of UXBs. Collected stories of Bomb Disposal heroism in World War II. : Lt Col E E Wakeling (D B Publishing 1966) ISBN 0 9525799 2 8
The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert : David Fisher (Weidenfield and Nicholson) ISBN 0297846353
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