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Professional Papers;
Royal Engineers Journal;
Royal Engineers Journal, New Series;
Supplement;
Royal Engineers List
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
Publisher
     Prince Arthur Road
     Brompton Barracks
     ME4 4UG England
FrequencyThree times a year
Indexing
OCLC 4-QINU`"'OCLC 
     (main publication}
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58754886 58754886
     (Supplement)
6-QINU`"'OCLC [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1579
     (Royal Engineers List)
ISSN 7-QINU`"'ISSN [https://www.worldcat.org/s
BLCAT 012092861
Links
Website www.instre.org

Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent, UK The Royal Engineers Journal, New Series


History[edit]

Professional Papers[edit]

The Professional Papers was started by Lieutenant William Thomas Denison (1904–1871) in 1837 and continued to be published until 1918.

Royal Engineers Journal[edit]

The Royal Engineers Journal is published three times per year and contains articles that have some military engineering connection. The first Journal was published in August 1870. The idea for the publication was proposed at the Corps Meeting of May 1870 by Major Richard Harrison (1837–1931) and seconded By Captain R Home, who became its first editor. The Journal eventually superseded the Professional Papers, which were started by Lieutenant WT Denison in 1837 and continued to be published until 1918).

The first Royal Engineer Journal of 1870 was printed by T Woolley of 26 High Street, Old Brompton. When this firm folded up the printing of Institution publications was carried out in London. The separation of the Editor from printers so far away however produced many difficulties and, after a short and unhappy time, printing was entrusted to W. & J. Mackay Ltd. of Chatham in 1888. This firm has remained the printers of all Institution publications, including Corps Histories, ever since-a most remarkable record covering three generations of the Mackay family.

Their new printing works were opened a few years ago at Lordswood in a large clearing in the wood in which the RE Drag had hunted for many years. The new works are the most modern of their kind and the close, happy personal liaison at all levels, so essential to efficient and "on the dot" publication, is still as it always was, which is a felicitous augur for the future.

World War I did not in any way interfere with the printing of Institution publications. Indeed, the copy for the Journals during those war years was greater than ever before. The heavy air attacks on the Chatham Dockyard during World War II caused the departure of the School of Military Engineering from Brompton Barracks to Ripon. The staff of the Institution however remained put and, despite the air-raids and the destruction they caused, the publication and distribution of the Journal, List and Supplement weathered the storm. More recently problems have arisen due to industrial disputes in the printing industry. During one of these disputes no National or other newspapers were printed for a time. The publication of A Monthly Supplement would have suffered a similar fate had not Mr. Mackay Miller and the apprentices of his firm personally set up the type for it and run it off. To help him the Supplement was kept down to bare essentials and it was the slimmest one ever printed. However, the tradition of never failing to publish was preserved.

On the formation of the Royal Engineer Institute a Library was established in London and Branch Libraries set up in other military centers at home and overseas to make available to Institute Members "information of a scientific and technological character bearing upon problems of national defense". Over the years these libraries grew in size and added to their holdings biographies of famous statesmen and soldiers, historical works and books on travel. The Second World War saw the closing down of all these Libraries. Many of the volumes from them were crated and stored in the cellars below the Headquarters Mess at Chatham. After the war the laborious task of unpacking and sorting them was undertaken. The lecture theater in the Institution Building was converted into a Corps Library which now contains the Roll of the Corps, a complete set of all Institution publications, many historic documents and over 30,000 books. It also contains several albums of photographs of great Corps history interest. Branch Libraries were not re-established.

The Royal Engineers Museum was set up in its present location in Brompton Barracks by the Institution in 1912, taking the place of a model room and small Museum previously run by the Royal School of Military Engineering. Its aim is to display in a visual form the development of military engineering and the development of the Corps of Royal Engineers and its outstanding achievements in peace and war. Today it is among the foremost Military Museums in the land. One of the most interesting collections displayed is that of the obverse and reverse of every campaign medal awarded since such medals were first awarded, each medal having been won by members of the Corps from the rank of Sapper to General Officer. Only a Corps with "Ubique" as its motto could produce such a unique collection of battle honors.

Supplement[edit]

Royal Engineers List[edit]

The Royal Engineers List is a list of all serving and retired officers and warrant officers. The first list was published in 1876 as part of the Journal, in 1905 it became a separate publication.

Current issue – New Series[edit]

Serial publications:

The current issue – April 1, 2024; Vol. 138, No. 1 – is the five hundred and eighty-fifth issue of the New Series that launched January 1, 1905.

One volume every half year:
  • January 1, 1905; Vol. 1, No. 1 – December 31, 1922; Vol. 36, No. 6 (monthly – two hundred and sixteen issues)
One volume every year:
  • March 31, 1923; Vol. 37, No. 1 – December 31, 1987; Vol. 101, No. 4 (quarterly – two hundred and sixty issues)
  • April 30, 1988; Vol. 102, No. 1 – December 31, 2005; Vol. 119, No. 3 (three times a year – fifty-four issues)
  • April 30, 2006; Vol. 120, No. 1 – April 1, 2024; Vol. 138, No. 1 (three times a year – fifty-five issues)

For the first eighty of its one hundred and nineteen-year history, the journal was printed by four generations of the Mackay family, which, as of the current issue – April 1, 2024 – covers sixty-seven percent of the publication's total age.

Archival access[edit]

Access to archival copies in pdf, courtesy of the Sappers of New Zealand, can be downloaded under the following URL syntax:

→ https://     www.nzsappers.org.nz     /wp-content/uploads/2018/11/     YYYY-MMMM.pdf

For quarterlies, enter months January, March, June, or September. For triannuals, enter April, August, or December.

Example for triannual:
→ https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1988-April.pdf
URL explained
  • The first part of the URL string – https:// – is the scheme that identifies the protocol.
  • The second part of the string – www.nzsappers.org.nz – is the domain name for the New Zealand Sappers.
  • The third part – /wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ – is the fixed (static) syntax of the file path component.
(the first three parts, together, will render the message, "forbidden access")
  • The underlined portion of the fourth part – YYYY-MMMM.pdf – is the variable syntax of the file path component.

Other archival resources[edit]

Selected editors[edit]


  • August 1870–1871: Robert Home, C.B., R.E. (1837–1879), born in Edinburgh, was the first editor of the Journal, but the following year Major V. G. Clayton, RE, undertook the editorship and carried it on for the next five years in addition to his other military duties. He was also responsible for the publication of the first Yellow Book-Corps Funds Report for Annual General Meetings. Capt. Home who was Commanding Royal Engineer for the expedition. He possessed an exceptional brain, and was unduly proud of it. Wolseley claimed that "he had an ineradicable repugnance to admit he was unable to give detailed answers to all questions, on all subjects, whether great or small, that any one put to him". He doubtless would have become a general but at the age of forty-one, already a Colonel, he died of typhus in Bulgaria. It was said that Disraeli cried when he learned of his death.[2] On September 6, 1878, the Queen announced that she had appointed Colonel Home to serve as Her Majesty's Commissioner for the delimitation of the frontiers of the Principality of Bulgaria, under Article II of the 1878 Treaty of Berlin.[3][4][5]


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  • 1871–1876: Major Valentine Gardner Clayton, R.E. (1838–1909)[6]


  • 1876–1880: Major William Henry Collins, R.E. (1836–1880), then, the acting secretary of the Royal Engineers Institute. Collins died as a Brevet-Major July 28, 1880 – eighteen months after marrying Margaret Alice Bradley (maiden).


  • Brigadier John H. S. Lacey, CBE, BA, secretary and editor of the RE Journal in 1958 – known as the last British soldier, in 1956, to leave the Suez Canal Zone after 74 years of British military occupation. Lacey handed over the keys of his Suez Canal headquarters at Port Said to Lieut. Colonel Abdullah Azouni of the Egyptian army.

Selected issues[edit]

  • "Critical Path Method". J. R. Johnson. Royal Engineers Journal March 1964. p. 44–53.
  • Edmonds, James E. "The Engineers in Grant's Campaigns of 1864-5." Royal Engineers Journal, 52, September 1938, 452-54.
  • Detailed History of the Railways in the South African War, 1899–1902. Chatham: Royal Engineers Institute, 190

Archival access[edit]

The first Royal Engineer Journal of 1870 was printed by T. Woolley of 26 High Street, Old Brompton. When this firm folded up the printing of Institution publications was carried out in London. The separation of the Editor from printers so far away however produced many difficulties and, after a short and unhappy time, printing was entrusted to W & J Mackay Ltd of Chatham in 1888. This firm has remained the printers of all Institution publications, including Corps Histories, ever since-a most remarkable record covering three generations of the Mackay family. Their new printing works were opened a few years ago at Lordswood in a large clearing in the wood in which the RE Drag had hunted for many years. The new works are the most modern of their kind and the close, happy personal liaison at all levels, so essential to efficient and "on the dot" publication, is still as it always was, which is a felicitous augur for the future.

Chatham: Rome Place -1851-
Gillingham (as plumber and insurance agent): 209 High St -1855-1871-
New Brompton: 26 High St. -1878- Plumber, 1841; stationer and journeyman plumber, Rome Place, Chatham, 1851 [censuses 1841-1851; POd 1851]. The 1861 and 1871 censuses have Elliott as plumber at 209 High Street, Gillingham. Between 1874 and 1878 purchased Thomas Woolley’s stationery business at 26 High Street, New Brompton; disposed of it to Thomas Hughes between 1878 and 1881. Retired as hardwareman to Hastings, Sx, in or before 1881; d. 3 Dec. 1890 [POds 1874-1878; census 1881; his will]. Son Edwin Henry Elliott a merchant’s clerk at 287 High Street, Chatham, between 1876 and 1881, so is not Edwin Elliott of 26 High Street, New Brompton, in 1878 [bc; census 1881].


August 1870 (Vol. 1, No. 1) – 1904 (Vol. 34)

  • The Royal Engineers Journal (triannual). Chatham: Royal Engineers Institute (publisher); W. & J. Mackay & Co. Ltd. (printer). {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |nopp= (help)  OCLC 5156485 (all editions). British Library 012092861.

New Series: January 1905 (Vol. 1, No. 1) – 2024

Online access[edit]

Via Google Books
Printed by T. Woolley & Son, 26 High Street, Brompton
August 1, 1870; Vol. 1, No. 1
October 1, 1870; Vol. 1, No. 2
January 2, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 3
March 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 4
(missing: April 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 5)
May 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 6
June 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 7
July 17, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 8
August 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 9
September 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 10
October 2, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 11
November 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 12
December 1, 1871; Vol. 1, No. 13
January 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 14
February 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 15
March 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 16
April 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 17
May 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 18
June 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 19
July 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 20
August 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 21
September 2, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 22
October 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 23
November 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 24
December 1, 1872; Vol. 2, No. 25
January 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 49
February 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 50
March 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 51
April 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 52
May 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 53
June 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 54
July 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 55
August 2, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 56
September 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 57
October 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 58
November 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 59
December 1, 1876; Vol. 5, No. 60
January 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 61
February 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 62
March 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 63 [sic]
April 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 63 [sic]
May 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 64
June 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 65
July 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 66
August 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 67
September 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 68
October 2, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 69
November 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 70
December 1, 1876; Vol. 6, No. 71
1895[edit]

Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers. edited by Captain W. A. Gail, "Occasional Papers". Vol. 15. 1890

1905 – New Series[edit]
Via Sappers of New Zealand
Printed by W. & J. Mackay & Co. Ltd. – monthly, serials numbers half-year
January–June 1905, Vol. 1
via Google Books



January–June 1906, Vol. 3
via Google Books




January–June 1908, Vol. 7
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Published quarterly from 1923



























































Printed by Staples Printers Rochester Limited at The Stanhope Press


Published three times a year from 1988


















Bibliography[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Ward, p. 229.
  2. ^ Farwell.
  3. ^ "Foreign Office".
  4. ^ Vetch, 1891.
  5. ^ Vetch, 1908.
  6. ^ RE Journal, April 1908, p. 233.

References to linked inline notes[edit]

Books, journals, magazines, and academic papers

    1. Vols. 1–2; OCLC 38730764 (all editions)
    2. Vols. 5-7, edited by H.L. Pritchard
    3. Vols. 3–9, edited by Whitworth Porter (1827–1892)
    4. Vols. 8–9, by Ridley Pakenham-Walsh (1888–1966)




Professional Papers[edit]

External links[edit]

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