Tower Hamlets Engineers
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The Tower Hamlets Engineers was a Volunteer unit of the British Royal Engineers (RE) based in East London. Raised in 1868, it provided engineers for two London infantry divisions of the Territorial Force during World War I. In World War II it operated as an RE headquarters, particularly on D-Day and at the Rhine Crossing, while its subordinate companies served in a number of campaigns, including the Siege of Tobruk and with the Chindits. Its successor unit continues to serve in today's Army Reserve.
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Tower Hamlets Engineers
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Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers
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114 (1st London) Army Engineer Regiment
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18th (London) GHQ Troops RE
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56th Divisional Engineers
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58th Divisional Engineers
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World War I:
*Gommecourt
*Arras
*Passchendaele
* Cambrai
*German spring offensive
*Amiens
*Hundred Days Offensive
* Sensée Canal
World War II
* Siege of Tobruk
* D-day
* Operation Goodwood
* Rhine crossing
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Badge of the East London Engineers from the Boer War memorial in St John on Bethnal Green. The Latin motto translates as 'Skill rather than force'.
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1868
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Peritia Potius Quam VI [Skill Rather Than Force]
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Field engineers
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56
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114
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Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers
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The Tower Hamlets Engineers was a Volunteer unit of the British Royal Engineers (RE) based in East London. Raised in 1868, it provided engineers for two London infantry divisions of the Territorial Force during World War I. In World War II it operated as an RE headquarters, particularly on D-Day and at the Rhine Crossing, while its subordinate companies served in a number of campaigns, including the Siege of Tobruk and with the Chindits. Its successor unit continues to serve in today's Army Reserve. The unit took it name from the historic Tower Hamlets (or Tower Division), rather than the smaller modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets created in 1965.
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Peritia Potius Quam VI[Skill Rather Than Force]
