Talk:Royal Engineers

message: Are these the same guys as the REME? [[PaulinSaudi 13:13, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: No, completely separate corps. REME repair military equipment. -- Necrothesp 13:41, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  REME 

message: I respect the existing article and the heritage of the corps; I'm just wondering what to do about titling and content of a splinter-article on the Royal Engineers in British Columbia, where their presence officially and thereafter as settlers (as some took their pay-outs there) is an important part of the history of the mainland colony and part of the local symbology/imagery.  I would have just added a paragraph but given the tight content of the current article it's evident to me someone's been very efficient in compiling it.  What would be the proper format for articles on the RE's careers abroad?  e.g. Col. Richard Clement Moody was Governor of the Falkland Islands before he came to British Columbia to assist Governor James Douglas in the taming of the Mainland Colony's restless Yankees (an inappropriate term; many were from the South and it was just before the Civil War).  Anyone qualified on regimental history who might want to write this would be welcome to do so; it's not my field; a friend takes part in a historical reconstruction group based around the Royal Engineers as they were in BC; there's a website which I'll come back and throw the link here (in the article) at least; if there's someone watching this site who's interested in the material I can point them to, don't hesitate to ask.  I've got other stuff to write in the meantime; I came here looking for a link to the Royal Engineers, not to write about them.Skookum1 07:03, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, me again/ I added an external link The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers - but am shying away from writing an article on  the detachment as I'm not experienced with military articles; just hoping someone here might take an interest in setting up the military-article outline, I can add in quite a bit of history as to their particular activities; a number of the members of the detachment already have bio articles out there, adn they surface endless in early BC history articles.  They're an extremely imporrant part of early colonial history so at some point an article Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers or the Royal Engineers in British Columbia is giong to exist as an article, or should; advice at least on which of those two titles is more approrpriate.  List of Royal Engineers who served in British Columbia swould seem redundant and awkward, also....Skookum1 (talk) 14:35, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha, my mistake someone has started the article - Royal Engineers, Columbia detachment - so thanks anyway; seems like that article needs retitling/capitalizating, though....Skookum1 (talk) 14:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Engineers in British Columbia - new article? 

message: History could do with expanding to ilustrate the RE role, AVRE would be a good place to start - 79th Armoured Division, Churchill tank etc. GraemeLeggett 16:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added this link: Royal Engineers World War I memorial at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, but yes, more history is needed here. Carcharoth 22:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I'm about to create a bio for "Sapper Duffey/Duffy", a Royal Engineer who froze to death in British Columbia during his exploration duties there in 1861.  Please see this about which name-spelling to use.  Apparently the regimental roster/records may show the Duffy spelling; but his colleagues named a lake after him with the Duffey spelling.  Advice/guidelines for British Army bios?Skookum1 (talk) 16:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advice on name choice 

message: There appears to be a slight contradiction... the Royal Engineers article states that Charles Arthur Crompton and Charles Sherrard were representives of The Army/Royal Engineers, whereas the players' own articles and the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches article states that they were representatives of Blackheath F.C.. The 1871–72 Home Nations rugby union matches article (Francis d'Aguilar, & Charles Sherrard of England, and  Frederick T. Maxwell, & Henry Renny-Tailyour of Scotland), and 1873–74 Home Nations rugby union matches article (William Stafford of England), specifically identify the rugby footballers representing The Royal Engineers rather than a club side. Did Charles Arthur Crompton and Charles Sherrard play for The Royal Engineers or Blackheath, or both? Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 11:01, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Engineers or Blackheath? 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Royal Engineers's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "publications.parliament.uk":
From Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers: Hansard
From Gibraltar: Parliament.uk, UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee 2007–2008 Report, pg 16
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:41, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Royal Engineers]] 

message: Sir Charles Moore Watson
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume 1 By Whitworth Porter, Sir Charles Moore Watson
http://books.google.com/books?id=PJQFAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=lqlBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume 2 By Whitworth Porter, Sir Charles Moore Watson
http://books.google.com/books?id=8mMFAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=FqdBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0
Other works
http://books.google.com/books?id=5UMLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=mUk-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=8dYOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 02:49, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sir Charles Moore Watson 

message: Especially units and the case of Army 2020. Phd8511 (talk) 21:40, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to reorganise this page 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: http://www.reahq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180222-ig-Man-Meet-Minutes-Jan-incl-Annexes.pdf
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Sammartinlai (talk) 15:04, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reformation of 28 Engineer Regiment 

message: Please see discussion at Talk:Units of the Royal Engineers. Dormskirk (talk) 10:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger of list of units from Royal Engineers article into Units of the Royal Engineers