This list includes all gallantry awards received by members of the Royal Canadian Engineers during the Second World War. The citation accompanying each award is a starting point for telling the story of each soldier's actions leading to the award. We aim to provide the context of the award in relation to the campaign or battle and many such stories have been published.
Gallantry Award Recipients
- A/Cpl George Edgar Parker, 1st Field Company, Military Medal
- A/Cpl George Roy Wilson, 16th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- A/Cpl Oscar Lyndon Harrison, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- A/Maj David Ferdinand Aitkens, 1st Mechanical Equipment Company, Military Cross
- A/Maj William Frederick Sharon, 9th Field Squadron, Military Cross
- A/Maj William Strathearn Leggat, 4th Field Company, Military Cross
- A/Sgt Richard Terhorst, 1st Field Company, Military Medal
- A/Sgt Robert Russell McPhee, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- A/Sgt Skippon, 7th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- Capt (A/Maj) Donald Herbert Evers, 12th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Capt Douglas Wightman Cunnington, 1st Battalion, RCE, George Medal
- Capt James Murray Rettie, MiD
- Cpl Alastair Aeneas Lawrence 13rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Cpl Allan Thomas Mould, 1st Field Company, Bronze Cross
- Cpl Finn Johansen 29th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- Cpl Gordon Antoine Durand, 8th Fd Sqn, Military Medal
- Cpl James Hendry, No. 1 Tunneling Company, George Cross
- Cpl James Patrick Stallard, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- Cpl Jean Donat Laloge, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Cpl Maurice Duruisseau, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Cpl Milne Humbert Patriquin, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Cpl Morell McEachnie, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Cpl Ralph Ian Gold, BEM, 13rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Cpl Ralph Simpson Wilson Hunter, 2nd Field Company, Croix de Guerre
- Cpl Robert Mann Fetherston, 11th Field Company, George Medal
- Cpl Ronald George James, 1st Field Squadron, Member of the British Empire
- L/Cpl Arthur Charles Smith, 1st Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Cpl Carl Oscar Overby, 16th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- L/Cpl Clive Vincent Reade, 3rd Field Park Company, Military Medal
- L/Cpl Edward Roy Boyce, 1st Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Cpl George Edward Chidley, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Cpl Harry Joseph Bartolacci, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Cpl John Aubrey Clifton, 5th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Cpl John Fisher, 1st Fd Pk Coy, Military Medal
- L/Cpl M.D. Sinasac, 7th Fd Coy, Distinguished Conduct Medal
- L/Cpl Reinhold William Weind, 4th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Cpl Stanley Bertram Dent, 1st Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Cpl William Arthur Amos, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Cpl William Richardson 29th Field Company, British Empire Medal
- L/Sgt Albert Edward Yeates, 18th Field Company, Distinguished Conduct Medal
- L/Sgt Albert Glover, 6th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Albert Gordon Alexander, 8th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Alexander Finnie Killah, 5th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Alfred Irvine, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Andrew Stanley Leathwood, 2nd Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Bertram West, 2nd Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Carl Stanley Clarke, 2nd Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Cecil George Trower, 1st Fd Coy, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Clifford Vernon Hebner, 7th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Garbutt Chapman, 6th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt George Albert Lang, 2nd Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt George Alfred Hickson, 7th Fd Coy, Distinguished Conduct Medal
- L/Sgt George Francis Percy, 7th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt George Harris, 6th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt George Leopold Hansen, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Glen Cuthbert Finch, 12th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Harry Sorfleet, 1st Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Herbert Henry Schell, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Hugh Morris Fitzpatrick, 5th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt James McLean Simpson, 12th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Joseph Willis Bryan, 6th Field Company, Bronze Lion (Holland)
- L/Sgt Kenneth Norman Henderson, 4th Field Company, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Michael Alexander Olgerd Brodsky, 16th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Patrick Jerome Jessome, 2nd Fd Coy, Distinguished Service Medal
- L/Sgt Robert Cecil Burn, 11th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- L/Sgt Robert Henry Dunkeld, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Sgt William Duncan Wallace, 1th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- L/Sgt William Hurd Gunness, 11th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- Lt Albert Hanson, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Alexander Daniel Hellens, 10th Field Squadron, Military Cross
- Lt Alexander Hamilton Nicolson, 13rd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Alfred Edward Street, 2nd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Allan Boyd Mcadam, 8th Fd Sqn, Military Cross
- Lt Arnold Reginald Belanger, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Arthur Paul Beavan, 9th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Douglas Lawson Sarantos, 16th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Edward Leland Healy, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Edward Thomas Galway, 3rd Field Company, George Medal
- Lt Edward Thomas Galway, GM, 11th Fd Coy, Military Cross
- Lt Edwin Norman, 7th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Frank Ellis Ladner, 1st Field Squadron, Military Cross
- Lt Frederick Walton Maund, 5th Armoured Division Engineers, Military Cross
- Lt Frederick Weight Philpot, 12th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Frederick William Hamilton, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt George Alexander White 29th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt George Breck Darling, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt George Eaton Atkinson, 4th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Herbert Firman Ditchburn, 8th Fd Sqn, Military Cross
- Lt James Douglas Graham, 10th Field Squadron, Military Cross
- Lt James Edward Whittaker, 5th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt James Howard Alexander, 6th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt James Richardson, 2nd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt James Russell Martin, 23rd Field Company, Mention in Dispatches
- Lt John Arthur York, 12th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt John Elgin Reesor, 4th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt John Gourley Pierce, 12th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt John Graham Horsburgh, 7th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt John Leon Ward, 8th Field Squadron, Military Cross
- Lt John MacMillan Stevenson Patton, 1st Battalion, RCE, George Cross
- Lt John Somerset Osborne, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt John Walter Young, 1th Field Squadron, Military Cross
- Lt Joseph Louis Philip Horace Boucher 204th Fd Coy, RE, Military Cross
- Lt Martin Orrel Rollefson, 9th Field Squadron, Military Cross
- Lt Neil Wallace Dickson, 3rd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Neville Whitney Davis Mann, 6th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Frederick Roberts "Bob" Freeborn, 57th Fd Sqn, Military Cross
- Lt Paul Herbert McCloskey, 4th Armoured Division, Military Cross
- Lt Peter Raymond Carr-Harris, 3rd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Reginald Arthur Wild, 4th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Richard John Wesley Armstrong, 2nd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Robert Cheyne Eddy, 18th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Russell Jordan Kennedy, 23rd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Sydney Charles Kenyon, 3rd Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt Victor Alexander Moore, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt William Alexander Ewener, 7th Fd Coy, Military Cross
- Lt William Bentley Tobey, 18th Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt William Fernley Brundrit, 30th Fd Coy, Military Cross
- Lt William Kenneth Heron, 1st Field Company, Military Cross
- Lt-Col Geoffrey Walsh, CBE, DSO, CD
- Lt-Col John Robert Blakely Jones, DSO, OBE, CRE 4th Cdn Armd Div
- Lt-Col Norman Janson Winder Smith, 2nd Canadian Division Engineers, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Charles Train Gray, 4th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Douglas Harvey McCallum, 31st Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Edward Wilton Henselwood, 18th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Frank Alexander McTavish, 5th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj George Kenneth Wade, 12th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Hardy Lawrence Main, 9th Field Squadron, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Kenneth James Southern, 3rd Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Lindsay Hugh Brown, 7th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Malcolm Corsan Sutherland-Brown, 7th Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj Michael Lovett Tucker, DSO
- Maj Robin Bothwell Fraser, 3rd Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj William Bryan Nelson, 2nd Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Maj William James Bright, 1st Field Company, Distinguished Service Order
- Major Michael Hughs Charles W. Allan, 8th Fd Sqn, Distinguished Service Order
- Major Robert Burns Cameron, 1st Field Squadron, Distinguished Service Order
- S/Sgt Clarence Dixon Woodcock, No. 1 Railway Operating Company, British Empire Medal
- S/Sgt James Wesley Ballentine, 4th Fd Pk Sqn, British Empire Medal
- Sgt Alexander Semple, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Archibald Everitt Critchley, 12th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Archibald Vincent Burlton, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Sgt Dennis Gerald McLaughlin, 10th Fd Sqn, Military Medal
- Sgt Dennis Gerard McLaughlin, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal and Bar
- Sgt George Alfred Hickson, 7th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Harold Camber Shaw, 8th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Sgt Henry Percy Chartres, 4th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Hugh Winslow Shiers, 1st Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Jack Norman Irwin, 1 Canadian Engineer Reinforcement Unit, Military Medal
- Sgt James Albert Romain, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt James Fullen, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Sgt James Shiu 30th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt John Joseph Holland, 7th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Joseph Abel Boudreau, 2nd Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Mervin George Durham, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Sgt Norman Henry Loiselle, 2nd Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Oscar Lloyd Mellick, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Peter Willigen, 6th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt Philip Macphail, 8th Fd Sqn, Military Medal
- Sgt Stanley Maurice Armstrong, 13th Field Company, Military Medal
- Sgt William John Brooks, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr (A/Cpl) Patrick Bayley, 2nd Canadian Field Park Company, Military Medal
- Spr Alexander McCullagh, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Bernard O'Reilly, 4th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Blain Waterman Thompson, 1st Field Company, Mention in Dispatches
- Spr Buddy Beaton 264th Field Company, RE, Military Medal
- Spr Charles Herman Kreuger, 1st Mechanical Equipment Company, Military Medal
- Spr Charles Vincent Lightfoot, 1st Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Spr Clifford Derwin Wardell, 9th Field Park Company, Military Medal
- Spr David John McCready, 23rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Donald Allen Vosdingh, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Frank Ray 554th Field Company, RE, Military Medal
- Spr Franklin Zeal Collins, 5th Mechanical Equipment Company, Distinguished Conduct Medal
- Spr Fraser Peter Hutchinson, 1st Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Frederic Roy Squires, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Spr Gene Velux, 6th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- Spr George Asa Blackburn, 1st Mechanical Equipment Company, Military Medal
- Spr George James, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Hakon Ingeman Bredeson, 20th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Harry Dacker Thicke, 20th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Harry Edgar Anstie, 10th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Spr John Dunham Garrett, 11th Field Company, George Medal
- Spr John Henry Hawkins 29th Fd Coy, Military Medal
- Spr Joseph Roger Royal Whelan, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Leo Schan, 1st Mech Eqpt Coy, Military Medal
- Spr Lewis MacHardy, Att'd 554th Field Company, RE, Military Medal
- Spr Lloyd Alexander Johnston, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Milton Coll McNaughton, 2nd Field Park Company, Military Medal
- Spr Noble John Hore, 6th Field Park Company, Croix de Guerre
- Spr Orville Charles Billings, 3rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Ralph Charles Spencer, 6th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Raphael Foster Heathcote, 18th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Raymond Donald Foster, 16th Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Raymond Le Bouthillier, 23rd Field Company, Military Medal
- Spr Thomas Heavers, 31st Field Company, British Empire Medal
- Spr Thomas James Hilton, 34th Field Company, Croix de Guerre
- Spr Walter Richard Coveyduck, 5th Field Company, Distinguished Conduct Medal
- Spr William Kain Grieve, 9th Field Squadron, Military Medal
- Spr William Walter Broome, 7th Field Company, Distinguished Conduct Medal
- WOII Seymour Wylde Howes, 16th Field Company, Military Medal