page_title: Tottenham Royal Engineers
section_title: Tottenham Royal Engineers
hierarchical_section_title: Tottenham Royal Engineers / Tottenham Royal Engineers
caption_attribution_description: Tottenham Town Hall, Haringey, London. 22 November 2005. Photographer: Fin Fahey. This is a photo of listed building number 1249634.
context_page_description: The 33rd Divisional Engineers or Tottenham Royal Engineers was a battalion-sized unit of the British Royal Engineers raised in Tottenham, London, during World War I as part of 'Kitchener's Army'. Together with other RE units recruited from Tottenham, it served in the great battles of 1916–18 on the Western Front, including the Somme, Arras, Ypres, the German Spring Offensive and the final Hundred Days Offensive.
context_section_description: On 11 February 1915 the War Office authorised the Tottenham Local Representative Committee, based at Tottenham Town Hall, to raise a field company of the Royal Engineers (RE), to be designated 212th (Field) Company (Tottenham). Soon this recruitment effort was expanded to the full RE complement for a division and then two Army Troops Companies in addition:
  33rd Divisional Engineers HQ
  212th (Tottenham) Field Company, RE
  222nd (Tottenham) Field Company, RE
  226th (Tottenham) Field Company, RE
  33rd (Tottenham) Divisional Signal Company, RE
  230th (Tottenham) Army Troops Company, RE
  238th (Tottenham) Army Troops Company, RE
  Among the volunteers who joined the Tottenham Royal Engineers were Tottenham Hotspur F.C. footballers Billy Minter and Findlay Weir. Both became serjeants; Minter was wounded and awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, while Weir was killed in action with the unit on 9 July 1918.
  The units were formally taken over by the military authorities on 14 July 1915 (later for the Army Troops companies). On that day the 212th and 222nd Field Companies joined the division at Clipstone Camp, Nottinghamshire, and 226th Field Company joined on 31 July, by which time the division had moved to Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain for intensive battle training. On 4 November the division was ordered to embark for France, and by 21 November it had concentrated around Morbecque, where it joined the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) for service on the Western Front.
  On 2 December, the division exchanged its 99th Brigade for the experienced 19th Brigade from the 2nd Division; 226th Field Company went with it to 2nd Division and 33rd Divisional Engineers received the Regular 11th Field Company, RE, in its place.
caption: Tottenham Town Hall, where the engineers were recruited in 1915.
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