Operational Experience
Training and planning into action
Learning from Recent Operations October 2021
Lessons from the past
In October 2021 the authors of the History of the Royal Engineers and other experts in their field came together to discuss and dissect the operations that the Corps of Royal Engineers since the millennium turned. Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan and other areas of operation were all covered in this enthralling record of the feats and lessons to be learnt, from the Corps involvement in military and civilian actions over the last 20 years.
This Members only video was recorded live in the auditorium Brompton Barracks, Medway 14/10/2021.
The Royal Engineers have been at the forefront of military operations for more than 300 years. Many of these operations have left us with lessons that we have learnt from and developed against.
British Pathe have a wealth of video content documenting our history. In each of these videos there is a nugget of information, knowledge and a memory or two.
- Relive the memory of the Royal Engineers connecting miles of fuel pipelines under the channel during WW2. Operation Pluto
- Various shots show Royal Engineers out in a forest, marking trees and planning the route of a road. Bulldozers come in and start to push trees down in their path. Lorries and cars start to move along the forest road. Engineers demonstrate how to cross a large trench. The bulldozers push earth in from either side and when the trench is partly full the vehicles start to cross.
- Allies open second front in Ostend, Royal Engineers explode mines to neutralize beaches in Ostende.
- The birth of Amphibian Engineering and the first laying of a Class 60 roll, military engineering experiments
