Sappers Collection

A Miner Success by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" They must ave ad some good news or somethin, Alf; you can ear em cheerin quite plain." Two British Tommies, Bill and Alf

Steamer Point, Aden, Yemen - Bathing Pool at the Lido - Sappers Bay. Date: circa 1940s

The Battle of the Roer Triangle; Second World War, 1945
Sketch showing the Allied Second Army crossing the Vloed Beek in Holland during a night attack on the 17th January 1945. On the left of the image one can see sappers constructing an improvised

Mine and Countermine by Heath Robinson
A tunnelling stand off between a British and German soldier with the German soldier eventually burrowing so deeply he falls out of the other side of the world. Date: 1915

Sappers & Miners / Hill 60
Sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers drive a tunnel under Hill 60 at Ypres, obliterated by a mine fired by the British in April 1915

Sappers tunnelling at Hill 60, Ypres, - WW1
Sappers tunnelling at Hill 60, Ypres, during the First World War

Sappers, miners and engineers in the Imperial Army
Sappers, miners and engineers in the German (Holy Roman Empire) Imperial Army, 19th century. Zappatori, Minatori, Guastatori e Pontonieri

Lancers or Uhlan light cavalry in the Imperial Army
Lancers or Uhlan light cavalry in the (German) Imperial Army, 19th century. Ulani. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Roman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4

BRITISH SAPPERS 1854
Sappers and Miners in working dress Date: 1854

BRITISH SAPPERS 1832
Sappers and Miners in uniform Date: 1832

SAPPERS & MINERS 1813 SAPPERS & MINERS 1813
Sappers and miners in uniform Date: 1813

Royal Sappers and Miners 1843
Royal Sappers and Miners in uniform Date: 1843

Durham miners as sappers, WW1
Durham miners who had enlisted in the army preparing a practice sap. Many miners served as tunnellers in the Royal Engineers during the First World War. Date: 1915

British Sappers 1823
Sappers and Miners in uniform

British 19C Sappers 1825
Sappers and Miners in uniform and working dress

The Sappers Bay, Aden
The Sappers Bay, British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1930

General Prendergast winning the Victoria Cross at Betwah
General Sir Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast (1834-1913) winning the Victoria Cross for his actions at Mundisore (where he saved the life of Lieutenant Dew) and at Betwah (Betwa)

1857 Mutiny / Sappers
Sappers working in the batteries at Lucknow. Date: 1857 - 1858

Indian troops in Mesopotamia during World War I
Indian sappers laying telephone cables in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Date: 1918

Indian sappers in a mine hole
Sappers, probably of the British Indian Army, in a mine hole. Date: circa 1890s

French sappers undermining a German trench - WWI Date: circa 1916

Bridge of Thorigny-sur-Marne - destroyed by French Engineers
Iron Bridge of Thorigny-sur-Marne, France - destroyed by French Engineers during World War One. Date: circa 1919

Samuel Cody at Aldershot with his first Kite Operating Squad made up of Sappers of the RE. These men were the first Air Contingent of the British Army

Lebanon - Beirut - French Army Barracks
The barracks of the French 43rd Battalion of Telegraph Sappers at Beirut, Lebanon Date: circa 1910

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Sappers & Miners 1802
Royal sappers and miners Date: 1802

Locating sappers by ear
Illustration showing British soldiers crawling close to the ground at night in No-Mans Land, in a bid to locate enemy sappers by ear

French Laying Mines
French sappers laying mines, tunneling towards the enemy lines where they will plant mines which when detonated should destroy the enemys defences

Russian Pontoon Bridge
Soviet Sappers build a pontoon bridge whilst under fire on the outskirts of Kyiv (Kiev)

Derelict Tank at Peronne
Sappers, or Royal Engineers, remove a derelict tank obstructing the road near Peronne in France during World War I

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