Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers (RE), commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. It provides combat engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces.

Decorations

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.

Related Topics:
Victoria Cross - British - Commonwealth

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• 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, Sebastopol, Crimea
• George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay, 1918, Catillon, France
• Gerald Graham, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea
• William Hackett, 1916, Givenchy, France
• Reginald Clare Hart, 1879, Bazar Valley, Afghanistan
• 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, Sebastopol, Crimea
• William James Lendrim, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea
• Wilbraham Oates Lennox, 1854, Sebastopol, Crimea
• Henry MacDonald, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea
• Cyril Gordon Martin, 1915, Spanbroek Molen, Belgium
• James McPhie, 1918, Aubencheul-Au-Bac, France
• Philip Neame, 1914, Neuve Chapelle, France
• John Perie, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea
• Claude Raymond, 1945, Talaku, Burma (now Myanmar)
• John Ross, 1855, Sebastopol, 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