1st Middlesex Engineers

1st Middlesex Engineer Volunteers
47th (2nd London) Divisional RE
56th (London) Divisional RE
101 (London) Field Engineer Regiment
Helmet Plate of the 1st Middlesex Engineer Volunteers
Active1860–1967
Country United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Army
TypeField engineers
Part of1st Middlesex Volunteers
1st London Division/56th (London) Division
2nd London Division/47th (London) Infantry Division
47th (1/2nd London) Division
60th (2/2nd London) Division

27 Engineer Group
Garrison/HQDuke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea
Nickname(s)'1st Mids'
EngagementsSecond Boer War
First World War:

Second World War

Commanders
Notable
commanders
Colonel Norman MacLeod of MacLeod
Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney D'Aguilar Crookshank
Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Thomson

The 1st Middlesex Engineers was the senior engineer unit of Britain's Volunteer Force, raised in 1860 and originally recruited from the South Kensington Museum. It provided Royal Engineers (RE) units to the 47th (1/2nd London) Division, the 47th (London) Infantry Division, the 56th (London) Divisions, and the 60th (2/2nd London) Division during both World Wars. The engineers served on the First World War's Western Front from 1915 to 1918, and in a number of theatres during the Second World War. It also served in the postwar Territorial Army, until 1967.