56th Field Company
Royal Engineers
Major Headquarters |
Locations |
Dates |
France and Flanders |
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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.