Royal Engineers memorials

Near the Memorial to the missing, on each bank of the river, either side of the nearby bridge, are two identical memorials commemorating the Royal Engineers who built, under fire, a floating bridge at this location in 1914. They were the 7th Field Company and 9th Field Company RE.
The inscription says:
At this point was built under fire by the Royal Engineers of the 4th Division a floating bridge for the passage of the left wing of the British Expeditionary Force after the Battle of the Marne. Portions of the division had already crossed by boat at the weir near Luzancy and below the destroyed bridges.

The columns are surmounted with the flaming grenade of the Royal Engineers and mark the spot at which British sappers constructed a pontoon bridge under German artillery fire on 9 and 10 September 1914.

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Source

• Text: Traces of War
• Photos: Francky de Rous