73 Engineer Regiment was a Territorial regiment of the
Royal Engineers, part of the
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
active from 1969 to 2014.
History
73 Engineer Regiment was formed when the
Territorial Army was drastically reduced in the late 1960s. The regiment was created as a reinforcement combat engineer unit to support
I (BR) Corps
I Corps ("First Corps") was an army corps in existence as an active formation in the British Army for most of the 80 years from its creation in the First World War until the end of the Cold War, longer than any other corps. It had a short-lived ...
in Germany. From 1969 - 1991 the regiment was assigned to
29 Engineer Brigade. In 1991 the regiment was re-organized to become 73 Air Support Engineer Regiment. In 1997 the regiment was assigned to
12 (Air Support) Engineer Brigade. Parts of the regiment served in
Operation Telic I and
Operation Telic III.
In 2006 the regiment was re-organized to become 73 Engineer Regiment.
In 2014 the regiment was disbanded and only 1 squadron remained and moved to
33 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Engineer Regiment.
Structure
The regiment's structure changed a bit through its history, the structure just before disbandment:
* Headquarters Troop
*
575 (Sherwood Foresters) Field Squadron
* 129 (
East Riding) Field Squadron
* 350 (
Nottinghamshire
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) Field Squadron
A number of former squadrons served with the regiment including:
* 129 Headquarters and Support Squadron
*
217
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(
London
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) Field Squadron
*
272 (West Riding Artillery) Field Squadron
* 873 Movement Light Squadron
* 106 (
West Riding
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) Field Squadron
*
The Jersey Field Squadron,
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References
Regiments of the Royal Engineers