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56th Field Company
Royal Engineers

Major Headquarters

Locations

Dates

France and Flanders

3rd Division

Retreat from Mons

23 Aug - 5 Sep 1914

3rd Division

Battle of Mons

23-24 Aug 1914

3rd Division

Battle of Le Cateau (company at Caudry)

26 Aug 1914

     

3rd Division

The Marne

7-10 Sep 1914

3rd Division

The Aisne

12-15 Sep 1914

3rd Division

La Bassee

10 Oct - 2 Nov 1914

3rd Division

Ypres

19 Oct - 22 Nov 1914

3rd Division

Nonne Boschen

11 Nov 1914

     

3rd Division

Hooge

19 & 30 Jul, & 9 Aug 1915

3rd Division

Albert (The Somme)

1-13 Jul 1916

3rd Division

Bazentin

14-17 Jul 1916

3rd Division

Delville Wood

15 Jul - 3 Sep 1916

3rd Division

Ancre

13-18 Nov 1916

3rd Division

Scarpe

9-14 Apr 1917

3rd Division

Scarpe

23-24 Apr 1917

3rd Division

Arleux

28-29 Apr 1917

3rd Division

Scarpe

3-4 May 1917

3rd Division

Menin Road

20-25 Sep 1917

3rd Division

Polygon Wood

26 Sep - 3 Oct 1917

3rd Division

Cambrai

20 Nov - 3 Dec 1917

3rd Division

St. Quentin

21-23 Mar 1918

3rd Division

Bapaume

24-25 Mar 1918

3rd Division

Arras

28 Mar 1918

3rd Division

Estaires

9-11 Apr 1918

3rd Division

Hazebrouck

12-15 Apr 1915

3rd Division

Bethune

18 Apr 1918

3rd Division

Albert

21-23 Aug 1918

3rd Division

Bapaume

31 Aug - 3 Sep 1918

3rd Division

Canal Du Nord

27 Sep - 1 Oct 1918

3rd Division

Cambrai

8-9 Oct 1918

3rd Division

Selle

17-25 Oct 1918

3rd Division

Sambre

4 Nov 1918

SOURCES:

1. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, 1925-1932.

2. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Volume V. The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, 1952.

3. DOYLE, A.C. British Campaigns in France and Flanders, 1914.

4. Official History of the Great War. France and Belgium, 1914. HMSO, London, 1920.