June 12, 1943
On this date in 1943, 2nd Battalion RCE began construction on the Royal Air Force Coastal Command Airfield at St.Eval, Cornwall.
On this date in 1943, 2nd Battalion RCE began construction on the Royal Air Force Coastal Command Airfield at St.Eval, Cornwall.
On this date in 1955, 26 helicopter-transported field crews were involved in survey for the Mid-Canada Radar Line sites.
On this date in 1884, an Engineer Branch was established at Military Headquarters in Ottawa and the care of all military buildings and fortifications was transferred from Public Works.
On this date in 1862, the Province of Canada Militia Act was amended to include Engineer companies as corps liable to serve in peacetime.
On this date in 1945, 3rd Battalion officially opened the Foulkes and Simond bridges at Arnhem. These were steel-piled Bailey bridges about 1400 feet long.
On this date in 1944, between 8 May and 5 June, the RCE in Italy had built 31 bridges totalling 2300 feet in length. The longest was 170-foot Triple-Single Load Class 9 Bailey bridge.
On this date in 1956, elements of 2 Field Squadron were deployed to Creston, BC to work on the dykes that were threatened by the flooding Kootenay River.
On this date in 1918, the Canadian Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Company was authorized and came under Commander [Canadian] Royal Engineers, Canadian Corps troops.