August 11, 1944
On this date in 1944, No. 2 Drilling Company arrived in Normandy and proceeded to quarry rock for roads and airports near Caen.
August 11, 1944
On this date in 1944, 1st Field Park Company successfully completed the firing of a German rocket motor that they had rebuilt.
August 11, 1943
On this date in 1943, No 2 Road Construction Company demonstrated the use of Prefabricated Bituminous Surfacing (PBS) as a method of constructing operational airfields in the Theatre of Operations.
August 10, 1912
On this date in 1912, Field Marshall Viscount Kitchener became the first Honorary Colonel of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers
August 9, 1944
On this date in 1944, Engineer units in France were involved in repairing roads, sweeping for mines, lifting redundant bailey bridging, and similar tasks.
August 8, 1944
On this date in 1944, during Op TOTALIZE, US Army Air Force bombers dropped bombs several miles short of their target killing 10 RCE surveyors and wounding 15 others. An addition seven sappers were killed and 21 wounded in other RCE units.
August 7, 1940
On this date in 1940, 6th Field Company departed its home station in North Vancouver for Debert, NS on its way to the Normandy battlefields.
August 5, 1918
On this date in 1918, for the attack on Amiens, the Canadian Engineer Military Transport Company moved thousands of sandbags, shovels, picks, barbed wire, and planking in secrecy.
August 4, 1944
On this date in 1944, 6th Field Park Squadron constructed "Phoney" a fake 100-ton tank to confuse the enemy. 1st Field Park Company produced fake guns.