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 // January
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1941, No. 2 Tunneling Company RCE was authorized. The first Commanding Officer, Maj C.B.North RCE had previously served in WW I.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1969, the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering was renamed to the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1877, Maj G.R.Walker was appointed the first Professor of Military Engineering at the Royal Military College.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1683, Etienne Verrie was born. He was to become Chief Engineer of Fortress Louisburg from 1724-45.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1943, sappers comprised 10% of the Canadian troops that arrived in Algiers for service with the British Army in North Africa.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Cpl Robert Clark from 1st Field Company was serving with 40 other Canadians in Mesopotamia to train a guerilla army from the Kurds.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Cpl Claude Radley, in England with 18 Field Company, penned the poem 'Salute to the Engineers.'");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1947, No. 7 Artisan Works Company was disbanded - the last World War II unit of the Royal Canadian Engineers overseas.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1893, Edwin Albert Baker was born at Collins Bay,ON. As Lieutenant in the Canadian Engineers, he was wounded during WW I and lost his sight. He was later instrumental in founding the Canadian National Institute of the Blind (CNIB).");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the RCE personnel in the mechanical trades were transferred to the newly established corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1876, the Toronto Engineer Company was authorized. Its name was later changed to the 2nd Military District Engineer Company in October of that year.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1919, Capt R.D. Adams was awarded the Military Cross for his action as part of the Allied force in Murmansk, Russia.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1945, Lt Dean and party from 1 Field Squadron faced the difficult task of laying mines and wire in an area in France that was largely under water.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Lt J.J. Denovan demonstrated a prototype model of what became the Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE).");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1946, the Directorate of Engineers was authorized in General Staff Branch at Army Headquarters.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1945, Engineer units of 6 Division were disbanded and most members transferred to the Infantry reinforcement stream.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Lt Graham of 10 Field Company conducted a mine clearing operating in Italy in preparation for an attack. The Unit suffered six men wounded in this operation.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 4th Equipment and Maintenance Platoon RCE demonstrated a 30-foot span Bailey lift bridge for use over canals.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1953, the first intake of the Sapper Apprentice Program arrived at the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering in Chilliwack. A total of 14 intakes were enrolled with the last one graduating in 1967.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the Canadian Railway Operating Company reported that it was dispatching 150 trains a day - transporting 200 tonnes of supplies plus troops and wounded.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1942, 3 Field Company was engaged in demolition training in England in the withdrawal phase of battle. It was reported that training was hampered by a shortage of materials.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1944, in Italy 1st Field Company learned they were able to repair damaged Bailey Bridges due to the basic design of the equipment.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1944, in Italy 10 Field Company found that road maintenance was a never-ending task due to weather, heavy traffic and enemy shelling.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1942, the Field Companies training in England conducted surveys of slopes and water depth of possible enemy assault locations on England.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1943, in Italy 4 Field Company was conducting training for officers and NCOs on reconnaissance by means of Tactical Exercises Without Troops (TEWTs).");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1940, 1st Corps Field Survey Company sailed from Halifax on the Empress of Australia for service in Europe.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 5 Field Company, assisted by 23 Field Company and 2 Road Construction Company removed debris from the Maas River in preparation for erecting the Walsh Bridge.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1961, the works section of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) completed an extensive renovation program at Sharm El Sheikh.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1940, intervention by the Engineer Commander of the 1st Canadian Division was necessary to obtain basic tools for the sappers to conduct training in England.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1945, in preparation for the advance into Germany, 11 Field Company practiced ferrying a battalion with support weapons including Bren Gun carriers and anti-tank artillery.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1951, 57th Field Squadron completed their unit training and spent time in the field in Fort Lewis, Washington to acclimatize personnel to the harsh living conditions anticipated in Korea.");
 // February
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1836, Royal Engineers Lt-Col John By, builder of the Rideau Canal, died in Frant, East Sussex, England.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1904, the Corps was renamed the Royal Canadian Engineers and His Majesty authorized the Royal Cypher surmounted by the Imperial Crown.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Lt E.T Galway was awarded the George Medal and Spr J.Lorraine the British Empire Medal for their part in rescuing L/Cpl W.N. Hunt from a watery grave in England.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1945, the 1st Field Company was the first engineer unit to leave Italy for the Northwest Europe theatre. The last unit left on 14 April.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1966, the Chief of Technical Services, Lt-Gen LGC Lilley (former RCE), announced that the base Construction Engineering organizations of all three Services would be realigned in accordance with a standard organization.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1968, Bill C-243 was passed - formalizing the restructuring of the Canadian Forces into a single, unified force. Three years later the Canadian Military Engineer Branch (CME) emerged.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1915, Engineer and Signal units of the 1st Canadian Division embarked for St. Nazaire France.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the Engineer Tunneling Companies were redesignated as 'Drilling Companies' with revised establishments.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the Canadian Railway Operating Companies posted some 230 members with British Railways to relieve their shortages of skilled staff.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1943, the Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on the Sicily Invasion that would eventually involve 1, 3, and 4 Field Companies; 2 Field Park Company, a Detachment of 1 Tunnelling Company and HQ RCE 1 Canadian Infantry Division.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1917, the Permanent Base Company, Canadian Engineers was established at le Havre. This unit was a forerunner of the Field Park units that appeared in later years.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1947, North American Air Defence (NORAD), a joint Canada-USA agreement for air defence of North America was announced.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 16 Field Company blew breeches in the dykes to alleviate flooding in the area of Kranenburg in support of operation VERITABLE.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1910, 1st Field Troop CE was authorized to serve with the cavalry.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1916, due to the shortage of engineer personnel, work parties from other units were attached on a temporary basis - an arrangement that was not very satisfactory.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 50 Field Companies of Engineers, three Road Construction Companies and two Pioneer Companies were employed on road maintenance on the Supply Lines in the British/Canadian sector due to bad weather.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1915, the three field engineer companies engaged in construction of entrenchments near Armentieres, France encountered enemy fire for the first time.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1935, His Majesty King George VI honoured the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers by becoming its Colonel-in Chief.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 7th Field Company, involved in road maintenance, observed that the roads existed in name only and needed endless quantities of rubble dumped into the bottomless mass of mud.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1945, No 9 Canadian Forestry Company was employed cutting timber in Germany in the Reichwald to provide material for corduroy roads.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1997, 1 CER constructed a 60 metre Acrow bridge over the Battle River at Auburndale AB to replace one damaged during the previous summer.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this day in 1915, the 2nd and 3rd Field companies were under heavy attack by the German’s first use chlorine gas in combat. 2nd Field was ordered to withdraw to the Yser Canal to prepare for its defence while 3rd defended as infantry near 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade headquarters.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1939, the Engineer Searchlight Companies were transferred to the Royal Canadian Artillery.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1943, the 1st Battalion RCE ice hockey team was runner-up for the Canadian Army championship for the second time.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1827, John Robertson was designing the lock structures on the Rideau Canal.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1945, General Crerar opened the Walsh Bridge that had been constructed by RCE Corps Troops over the Maas river. This Bailey Bridge had 421 feet of Double-Single spans and 865 feet of Triple-Single spans.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1880, the Brighton Company of Engineers was formed in New Brunswick. This was the last Engineer unit formed before 1900 and the only such one to be perpetuated to the present day.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1925, an earthquake in Quebec and Eastern Ontario damaged many old military masonry buildings - requiring extensive repairs.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1948, Lt-Gen M.A. Pope (Former RCE) retired from the Army to become Canadian ambassador in Bonn. Later he served as ambassador to Belgium and Spain.");
 // March
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1946, 1st Field Company was re-designated 23rd Field Company RCE and located at Camp Chilliwack as the permanent RCE unit of the Active Force after WW II.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1946, 23rd Field Squadron (stationed at Camp Chilliwack) was authorized as part of the Active Force field component.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1941, No. 2 Tunneling Company arrived in Gibraltar to begin work on the tunnels and defensive works in The Rock.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1942, Spr F.P.Hutchinson returned to 1st Field Company two years after being left behind in France after Dunkirk in 1940. He was awarded the first Military Medal to a Canadian in WW II.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1813, Sir Casimar Stanislas Gzowski was born in St. Petersburg Russia. He became staff officer to the Engineer Force of the Dominion and Superintendent of Public Works Canada.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Lt C.F. Blair of 4 Field Park Squadron was actively engaged in Italy in that Engineer specialty of “scrounging material” - eventually acquiring 65 truckloads.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1719, construction began on Fort Louisburg, Cape Breton Island. The site had been recommended three years previous and it took 25 years to build.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1942, No 2 Tunneling Company was commended by the British CRE for breaking all records for drilling in Gibraltar by 36%. The average age of these sappers was 35.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 18 Field Company was undergoing loading drills for assault landings. Bicycles were a problem because of a lack of spare parts.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 10 Field Squadron reported bridging operations in Italy were often impossible due to heavy rains.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1916, the first of seven Canadian Pioneer Battalions arrived in 1st Division in France. These units helped alleviate the shortage of skilled labour.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 12)) document.write("In 1928, we witnessed the revival of the Military Engineers Association and the continuation of its role of increasing the influence on Army Headquarters.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1919, the Rawlinson Committee recommended that the Royal Engineers adopt the organization of the Canadian Corps on the basis of their success in the final stages of WW I.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1941, Maj-Gen Kenneth Stuart C.B. D.S.O. M.C [Late RCE] assumed position of Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. Promoted Lt Gen and appointed Chief of the General Staff on 24 Dec 1941.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1939, the actual strength of the Permanent Force Engineers was 47 officers and 251other ranks.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 11 Field Company suffered casualties while destroying mines that had lifted near Cleve to clear an area for the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1944, there were 161 Officers and 2908 Other Ranks on strength of RCE Reserve units.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1944, under operational conditions, a Field Survey Company RCE was able to produce a three-color map from air photographs in 29 hours.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1943, No. 1 Railway Operating Group RCE was called out on active service with Operating, Workshop, and Telegraph Companies under command.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1989, Sgt Dan MacPhee of 45 Field Engineer Squadron was chosen as the only Militia member of the Canadian Military Engineer team sent to Pakistan to instruct on mine clearance.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 3rd Field (Reproduction) Survey Company had produced 304,000 maps, involving 1,045,000 impressions, over the previous one-week period.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1943, detachments from RCE 1st Canadian Corps Troops began reconstructing All Saints' Church in Merstham, England. This church had been destroyed by enemy bombing.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 4th Drilling Section was attached to the 5th US Army for employment in the Anzio beachhead.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the Engineer units of the 1st Canadian Corps were reorganized as a “brigade of engineers” under the Chief Engineer to achieve better efficiency.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 2nd Canadian Corps Troops Engineers constructed “Blackfriars” Bridge, a Load Class 40 floating Bailey bridge that, at 1814 feet long, was the longest in the world at the time.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1951, members of 23 Field Squadron and 13 Works Company participated in a demolition exercise during the floods in Medicine Hat AB.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1916, the explosion of six ‘mines’ at St Eloi, while very successful, created a morass of mud that resulted in a massive engineer task.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1945, all Royal Canadian Engineer elements attached to 1 Canadian Corps completed the transfer from Italy to the Northwest Europe theatre.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1914, the Survey Division reported that it had completed 23,417 square miles of survey covering 73 map sheets.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 30)) document.write("By this date in 1943, wartime construction with a value of 63 million dollars had been carried out in Canada by contract and military labour under engineer officers.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1948, Brigadier J.L.Melville CBE, MC, ED was appointed as the first Honourary Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.");
 // April
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1920, the School of Military Engineering was reopened in Halifax after WW I.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1943, the Directorate of Engineer Development designed and tested the Load Class 40 Canadian Universal Bridging Trestle that was subsequently used on the Rhine crossings.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1946, Canada was in the early stages of taking over the Canadian section of the Alaska Highway, including telephone systems, buildings, and other assets valued at $108 million.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1912, Militia Order 212 dated 20 April 1912 authorized formation of the Military Engineers' Association of Canada (MEAC).");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1945, Maj D.W. Cunnington was an observer at the invasion of Okinawa, Japan.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1824, Samuel Clowes finished the engineer route survey for the Rideau Canal and reported to Governor Maitland.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 3rd Battalion and No. 2 Drilling Company completed a 42 mile section of “DUMBO” - a petrol pipeline to supply 48,000 gallons per hour.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1968, 1 Airborne Field Squadron was established as part of the Canadian Airborne Regiment.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1929, Maj-Gen A.G.L. McNaughton Chief of Defence Staff in a speech to the Military Engineers Association of Canada provided a good insight into his understanding of the role of the engineers.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1874, Lt-Col Casimir Gzowski was appointed Staff Officer for the Engineer Force of the Dominion.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1945, a platoon of 2nd Drilling Company was employed at Ostend to help destroy the reinforced-concrete submarine pens.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1991, 1 CER deployed to Kuwait. This was the first complete Engineer unit deployed since Korea.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1941, an Engineer Company from Gibraltar (part of Kent Corps troops) arrived in Thesssaloniki, Greece to destroy oil stocks but were thwarted by the enemy.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1992, Sappers from 4 CER were engaged in mine clearing at Ilok, Croatia.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1936, 1st Corps Field Survey Company was formed. This was the last Canadian Engineers unit formed before the Engineers became the Royal Canadian Engineers on 29 Apr 1936.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1945, No 1 Drilling Company left Italy and arrived in North West Europe under command 1 Canadian Army Group Royal Engineers.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1951, 57th Independent Field Squadron embarked on the USNS Marine Adder enroute to Korea.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1940, 3 Field Company constructed corduroy roads in England using hand tools only due to lack of bulldozers.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 10 Field Squadron experimented with building an under-water Bailey bridge, thereby creating a ford.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1948, a stained glass window honouring Canadian railway troops killed in WW II was unveiled in Garrison Church at Longmoor, England.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1919, the first drafts of 16th Field Company left Siberia. The rear parties were back in Vancouver by 18 June 1919 and demobilized by the end of June.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1915, Engineer Companies with 1st Canadian Division were engaged in action as infantry as well as the usual engineer tasks at the First Battle of Ypres.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 6 Field Company experienced its last casualties in the Netherlands while removing a roadblock that was holding up The Royal Winnipeg Rifles.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1942, the first Commandant of A6 Engineer Training Centre Chilliwack, Lt-Col Davies, marches to Vedder Crossing with 1200 troops brought by rail from Dundurn SK.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1787, the title Royal Engineers was granted to the British Corps of Engineers.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 16 Field Company successfully participated in Exercise FABIOUS, a rehearsal for the D-Day landings.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1943, it was advised that the Geographical Section, General Staff had produced 1,942,316 printings of maps during the fiscal year 1942-43.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1915, L/Cpl R.J. Casement of 1st Field Company won the Distinguished Conduct Medal for leading a party under fire to rescue a wounded Royal Engineer officer behind enemy lines.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1936, King Edward VIII granted the title Royal to the Corp of Canadian Engineers.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1919, the Canadian Railway Troops ceased operations - having won 530 decorations (14 being foreign) and 228 Mentioned in Dispatches.");
 // May
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1940, No 1 Tunneling Company RCE was formed, its members being mostly Canadian hard rock miners.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1945, at the end of a ten day period, 2nd Corps Troops Engineers had constructed 2678 feet of Bailey bridging and conducted some 200 Bailey-raft miles.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1945, German “pioneer” Prisoners of War provided maps of mine fields and helped to lift mines.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1951, 58th Independent Field Squadron was created for service with 27 Brigade in Northwest Europe.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the formation of the Corps of Canadian Railway Troops, effective 23 April was announced - combining five previously independent railway units.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1947, Spr R.C. Spencer MM, was first other rank to enlist in the post-war 23rd Field Squadron. Maj G.K. Wade was appointed the first Commanding Officer.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1972, The Trans-Canada Highway bridge over the Petawawa River collapsed. In a short period, 1 Field Squadron constructed a detour route including a two-span Bailey bridge.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1945, the Royal Canadian Engineer strength was 521 officers and 13,020 other ranks with 21 Army Group on the continent.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1945, the Royal Canadian Engineer strength with Canadian Army overseas was 685 officers and 15,677 other ranks.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1915, two sappers from 1st Divisional Signal Company built two receiving sets and initiated wireless communication in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1957, Brig J.L. Melville officially opened the RCE Museum at Camp Chilliwack.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1944, a 100-foot Load Class 30 tank-mounted Bailey bridge was launched over the Gari River. This was the first of this type constructed.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1757, Engineer officers in the British Army were granted military rank as engineers and no longer had to seek line commissions.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1988, 56 Field Engineer Squadron completed a suspension bridge over Wallace Creek in Gros Marne National Park.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 1 Field Company constructed Quebec Bridge in Italy that required 800 yards of Summerfield track to reinforce the boggy approaches.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1919, the last draft sent out from the Engineer Training Centre at Seaford was to serve with the Graves registration organization in France.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1945, traffic following V-E Day in the Netherlands resulted in the need for extensive road repairs and a heavy work load for the Engineers.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1916, the Canadian Corps Tramways Company was formed to construct and operate lightrail tramways in the Corps area.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Engineer units were conducting load trials to determine the best way to arrange their kit on trucks.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1870, the Red River Expedition left Toronto with 20 Royal Engineer members.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Sappers in France were able to incorporate wine barrels into an improvised bridge at a rate of 50 feet in 8 minutes.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1948, training programs were initiated to train personnel in the construction trades as it was proving impractical to recruit qualified tradesmen.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the personnel of 107th Pioneer Battalion, which included Tom Longboat (the famous First Nations long distance runner), were distributed amongst 1st Divisional Engineers.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1832, Lt-Col John By, RE officially opened the Rideau Canal.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1916, 239th Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Battalion was authorized to carry outwork on the Western front.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 2nd Battalion completed two timber pile bailey bridges at Zutphen each about 1450 feet long. The Army Commander officially opened the bridges on 29 May.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1944, based on past experience, the Engineer component of 5th Armoured Division was increased to three Field Squadrons. 14 Field Company thus joined 1 and 10 Field Squadrons.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1918, in recognition of the greater mobility of operations, sappers were transferred to specialized bridging units.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Lt J.W. Bailey was sent back to organize and train 1 Cdn Assault Troop with the Armoured Corps.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 14 Field Company erected a 110 foot Double-Single Bailey bridge across the Liri River near Ceprano to provide an urgently needed crossing.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1827, the 15th Company of Royal Sappers and Miners arrived to build the Rideau Canal.");
 // June
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1942, the Canadian Petroleum Warfare Experimental Unit, RCE was formed. The unit carried out flame warfare experimentation.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1916, while working on a tunnel, both exits were collapsed by enemy fire. Upon digging themselves out, the tunnellers found themselves behind German lines and were prisoners.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1918, to overcome the lack of adequate transport, the Canadian Mechanical Transport Company was formed to support the Engineers.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1956, elements of 2 Field Squadron were deployed to Creston, BC to work on the dykes that were threatened by the flooding Kootenay River.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1944, between 8 May and 5 Jun Canadian Engineers had built 31 bridges totaling 2300 feet of bridging. The longest was 170-foot Triple-Single Load Class 9.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 5th, 6th, 16th, and 18th Field Companies landed with the initial wave of the D-Day assault troops on “Juno” beach in Normandy.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1917, one million pounds of high explosive was exploded in 19 locations at St. Eloi. This was the last large-scale mining operation of the war.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 3rd Battalion officially opened the Foulkes and Simond bridges at Arnhem. These were steel-piled Bailey bridges about 1400 feet long.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1862, the Province of Canada Militia Act was amended to include Engineer companies as corps liable to serve in peacetime.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1884, an Engineer Branch was established at Military Headquarters in Ottawa and the care of all military buildings and fortifications was transferred from Public Works.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1955, 26 helicopter-transported field crews were involved in survey for the Mid-Canada Radar Line sites.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 2nd Battalion RCE began construction on the Royal Air Force Coastal Command Airfield at St.Eval, Cornwall.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1941, Cpl James Hendry was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his heroic actions and warning of his fellow workers of a fire in a powder house.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1940, Tommy Prince enrolled in the 1st Corps Field Park Company, RCE. He became Canada's most decorated native soldier.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1952, the Donjek Bridge, constructed by No 1 Road Maintenance Company at Mile 1132.8 on the Alaska Highway, was opened by Brig J.L.Melville.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1945, Cpl R.M.Fetherston and Spr J.D. Garrettt of 11 Field Company were awarded the George Medal for rescuing British soldiers in an ammunition fire.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1897, Lt-Gen Edson Louis Milliard (Tommy) Burns was born in Westmount, QC.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1942, the Royal Canadian Engineers were introduced to the Bailey bridge that was to replace the Inglis bridge they had been using.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 10 Field Squadron organized a “Get Ahead Course” to acquaint officers of other arms on how to solve problems and relieve Engineers of a workload.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1917, Tunnelling Companies were being employed as extra Field Companies due to their expertise in explosives.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1749, Lord Cornwallis landed in the newly formed garrison town of Halifax. His engineers immediately began the layout of the town and its defences.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1943, due to the heavy Engineer commitment, training of Artillery personnel to construct Bailey Bridges was started.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 2 Field Company successfully completed a large bridging exercise in England that included the command and control of platoons from 7th Field Company.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1918, 7th Battalion won the baseball championship of 3rd Canadian Division.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1950, North Korean Forces invaded South Korea resulting in the employment of a Canadian Brigade, including a Field Squadron, for three years.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1945, No 1 Canadian Army Rehabilitation Training Centre (Survey) was opened to qualify military surveyors for employment with a Dominion Land Surveyor in Canada.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 18 Field Company found themselves involved in filling pot holes, clearing ditches, and other maintenance tasks in Italy.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1917, most of the light railway construction and maintenance in the British sector was being handled by Canadian Railway Troops.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1783, 183 Militia members began construction a road from the Saint Lawrence River to Lake Temiscouata.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 4th Field Company were advised that their destination was Sicily to serve with Montgomery's Eighth Army.");
 // July
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1903, the Canadian Military Engineer Corps was officially authorized. Lt-Col Weatherbee was the first Commander.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1918, SgtT. Jackson, 2nd Batallion, a wrestler, and Spr Keeper, distinquished themselves in Corps sports events.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 3rd Canadian Division, upon being selected for the assault phase of the invasion of Europe, began an intensive period of assault landing training.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1941, RCE units provided the Guard of Honour during an inspection of 1st Canadian Division by HM King George VI.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1916, No. 2 Construction Battalion the (“Black Battalion”) was authorized and was attached to the Forestry Corp in France.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1948, a total of 49 “active” Reserve Force Engineer units and headquarters was authorized.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 2002, 12 Field Engineer Squadron of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment destroyed 11,340 kg of enemy ammunition and weapons in Afghanistan.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Engineers began the task of clearing the rubble from the streets of Caen that had been created by the many collapsed buildings.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1954, as a result of the Kennedy report, there were substantial changes in the organization of the Engineer units in the Militia.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 1st and 3rd Field Companies landed in the assault of the beaches in Sicily with the 1st and 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigades.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 3rd Canadian Division, with its Engineer units, came under the command of II Canadian Corp vice I British Corps.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1853, the Rideau Canal was turned over to Canada West (Ontario). Imperial troops withdrew.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1943, a detachment of No. 1 Tunnelling Company landed in Sicily where it was employed drilling wells and quarrying.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1958, Military Engineer personnel were employed fighting a forest fire that threatened Whitehorse, YK. Several fires also occurred in other locations.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1858, the British Boundary Commission commenced the survey of the boundary between the United States and British Columbia.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1956, Sgt D.E. Stevenson, an RCAF firefighter, was awarded the George Medal for his efforts in quelling a fire in a NATO fuel dump in France.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the first elements of 2nd Field Survey Company arrived in Normandy. The last survey units set up near Caen on 19 Aug 1944.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1946, the All Sappers Cenotaph was completed in Chilliwack. Lt-Col C.N. Mitchell, VC was instrumental in building the cenotaph.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 24th Field Company landed on Adak Island as part of a force to repel a Japanese invasion. They landed on Kiska on 16 Aug where they remained until 4 Jan 1944.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Engineers of the 2nd Division opened a water point near Fleury, France. It dispensed over 100,000 gallons of treated water the first day of operation.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1958, Engineer elements fighting forest fires threatening Whitehorse were stood down as the fires died down.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 7 Field Company experienced difficulties with infantry support during night laying of mines.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Headquarters 1st Canadian Army became operational and took up the left flank of the Allied Armies where it remained for the rest of the war.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1916, the 1st Tunneling Company raised a warning of an enemy mine about to be detonated and saved many casualties among the allied defenders.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1936, Spr G.L. Turner of 1st Field Company rode for Canada in the 100 km bicycle race in the 1936 Olympics.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 2/6 Field Company of the Occupation Force in Germany organized a unit canteen “Club 49” to provide local recreation facilities as such other facilities were too far away.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 10th Field Park Company completed emergency repairs of the printing presses to enable “The Maple Leaf” to print its first edition.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1916, at the request of the British Government three sections of Skilled Railway Employees, Canadian Expeditionary Force, were authorized.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 1 Field Park Company was able to develop a cable layer from a plough that that very much pleased the Signals.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1953, Engineers were involved in salvaging material from the demilitarized zone within 72 hours of the signing of the Korean War truce.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1953, a concensus of Engineer and general staff officers of the Commonwealth Division in Korea recommended the assignment of two engineer regiments per Division.");
 // August
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Brig W.B. Lindsay, CMG, DSO, was promoted Maj-Gen. He was one of the original seven officers from when the Canadian Engineer Corps was formed.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1912, James McCurdy, a member of 2nd Field Company, piloted the “Silver Dart” at Petawawa on the first ‘military flight’ of an aircraft in Canada.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Engineers comprised 1 in 8 (13%) of the total of the British Forces in Normandy.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 6th Field Park Squadron constructed “Phoney” a fake 100-ton tank to confuse the enemy. 1st Field Park Company produced fake guns.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1918, for the attack on Amiens, the Canadian Engineer Military Transport Company moved thousands of sandbags, shovels, picks, barbed wire, and planking in secrecy.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 1st Canadian Division was placed on reserve in Sicily after completion of operations. RCE units had won 10 decorations at the cost of 14 deaths, 67 wounded and 8 taken prisoner.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1940, 6th Field Company departed its home station in North Vancouver for Debert, NS on its way to the Normandy battlefields.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Engineer Survey had 10 personnel killed and 15 wounded when the US Army Air Force dropped their bombs short. Several other engineer units also had casualties.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Engineer units in France were involved in repairing roads, sweeping for mines, lifting redundant bailey bridging, and similar tasks.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1912, Field Marshall Viscount Kitchener became the first Honorary Colonel of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1943, No 2 Road Construction Company demonstrated the use of Prefabricated Bituminous Surfacing (PBS) as a method of constructing operational airfields in the Theatre of Operations.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1944, a section of 1st Drilling Company was employed restoring the water supply to the city of Florence.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1944, “Monty's Bridge”, constructed by 20th Field Company was opened in Caen. This Bailey Bridge consisted of two 70-foot Triple-Single spans and one 40-foot Double-Single span.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1971, the statue of Lt-Col John By, RE, was unveiled in Major Hill's Park, Ottawa.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1927, the Engineer Corps School in Halifax was granted the title of “Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering.”");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1827, Admiral John Franklin laid the first stone in the Rireau Canal Locks after his return from the Arctic.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1992, Sgt C.M. Ralph from 22 Field Squadron, UNPROFOR killed by a mine in the former Yugoslavia.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1914, five officers and 144 other ranks from 5th Field Company arrived at Valcartier to prepare the camp for the training of the Expeditionary Force.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1942, L/Sgt G.A. Hickson was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for action at Dieppe. He later was awarded the Military Medal for action in North Africa.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1941, 3rd Field Company embarked for Spitzbergen where they destroyed wireless installations and coal depots to prevent the enemy using the site.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1954, the Army Survey Establishment began the production of Military City Maps of major urban locations in Canada - eventually producing 51 map sheets.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1950, Brig R.M. Rockingham announced that a new unit, 57th Canadian Independent Field Squadron would be formed for service in Korea.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1986, 56 Field Engineer Squadron completed an Acrow bridge over the Dyke's River in Labrador in support of Air Command.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Spr C.H. Kreuger of the 1st Mechanical Equipment Company, having cleared 24 miles of road with his D-7 dozer, won the Military Medal for work under fire.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 3rd Field Company used three Sherman (tank) bulldozers in two crossings over the Metauro with great success. It was the first use of this plant.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1944, No 2 Platoon of 7th Field Company had 6 killed, 10 wounded, and 9 missing in action while part of a “Jock” column with the Black Watch of Canada.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1918, to meet the need for portable bridging, the Inglis bridge was introduced to replace the much heavier Hopkins bridge.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Group Headquarters and two Railway Operating Companies embarked for Normandy. No 1 Railway Workshop Company followed on 19 Nov 1944.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1943, No 6 Construction Company completed an RCAF Wing for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at East Grinstead.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1942, 14th Field Company was employed constructing coastal defences near Amberley-Bogner Regis in England. Most RCE units had their turn at this work.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1944, several Engineer units, including 5th, 23rd, 34th, 16th, and 20th Field Companies used bridging, rafts, and storm boats in crossing the Seine.");
 // September
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1943, B Company of the 3rd Battalion began trials on the newly designed Bailey suspension bridge.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1944, several officers and 750 sappers were transferred to the Infantry – an action that would later cause operational problems.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 4th Field Company landed on “Fox Green” Beach at Reggio, Italy at 0700 hours. 1st Field Company built the first Bailey Bridge later that evening.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1971, following two years of work by 3 Field Squadron and 1 Construction Engineering Unit, the Ogilvy River bridge on the Demster Highway was handed over to the Yukon Territory.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 5)) document.write("No Entry");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 31 Field Company occupied a former German billet near Samer and found a joint of beef cooking in the oven.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1943, after days of craters, blown bridges, and more craters 1st Division was very Sapper-conscious and Engineers basked in the glory.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Italy announced its surrender.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1918, four battalions of Canadian Railway Troops, having been employed on railroads between Arras and Amien, turned them over to the Railway Operating Department.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1916, five officers and 23 other ranks from the 1st Overseas Canadian Pioneer Details were sent to operate steam boats on the River Tigris.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Major D.W Cunnington was sent to the US Command and General Staff Course in preparation to a posting in the Pacific Theatre.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1713, the French took possession of Cape Breton Island and started construction of the fortress at Louisbourg.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1954, the Army Survey Establishment became involved with the RCAF in the survey of the Mid-Canada Radar Line.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1944, armoured D-7 bulldozers came into use with 1 Canadian Corps.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1969, following extensive trials, it became policy that the Canadian Military Engineers would provide the Combat Diving expertise for the Army.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Headquarters RCE 1st Canadian Corp Troops had under command 3100 all ranks, belonging to 23 different units.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1943, a senior staff officer commenting on the role of the engineers said: “What this division needs is three brigades of Sappers and three companies of Infantry.”");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1916, following the advance after the battle of Courcelette, the Engineers were fully committed in preparing defensive works, tramways, and trenches for Canadian forces.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the formation of the Brigade Forward Water Supply Sections Canadian Engineers was authorized.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1967, 56 Field Engineer Squadron completed the restoration of the Quidi Vidi Battery as a Centennial project.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1941, Lt J.M.S. Patten was awarded the George Cross, and Capt D.W. Cunnington the George Medal for removal of an unexploded bomb from the Hawker Hurricane plant.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 2 Battalion RCE commenced construction of a semi-permanent three-span Bailey bridge over the Seine at Rouen. The spans were 150 feet, 160 feet and 180 feet.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1916, Lt W.B. Pennock was instrumental in producing a camouflage model of tank to confuse the enemy.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1915, the 1st Tunneling Company was formed at Petawawa and the 2nd Tunneling Company was formed at Calgary.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 20 and 23 Field Companies were instrumental in evacuating some 1500 paratroopers from the Arnhem bridgehead.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1914, the establishment of a Field Company included 17 riding horses, 35 draughthorses, 4 pack mules, 4 Royal Engineer wagons, 8 tool carts, 75 feet of medium bridge, 2 wooden pontoons, and 2 trestles.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 3rd Field Company, in support of the New Zealanders, built a 80-footTriple-Single Bailey bridge and a 90-foot Triple-Single Bailey in one day.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1915, No 1 Canadian Forestry Party formed at Hautot Remount Depot and began work in the Foret de Rouvey near Rouen, France." + "<br>" + "On this date in 1918, an Inglis bridge was built on the Arras-Cambrai road - the first one erected by Canadians under shellfire.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1945, 1st Field Company once again marched through the streets of Halifax following the unit’s return from Europe.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1826, the Earl of Dalhousie turned the first sod for the Rideau Canal in Entrance Valley.");
 // October
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1946, A6 Canadian Engineer Training Centre was redesignated the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering and Camp Chilliwack became the “Home of the Engineers.”");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1940, the first of 7000 members of the Forestry Corp arrived in Scotland to provide sawn lumber for the Allied Armies in Europe.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1914, 38 officers and 721 other ranks of the Canadian Engineers sailed for Europe. Sapper signals personnel were in addition to these.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1918, 1st Bridging Company Canadian Railway Troops was sent to Palestine to repair damaged bridges near Samakh.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Maj-Gen C.S.L. Hertzberg left for India to advise South-East Asia Command on the rapid construction of airfields using Prefabricated Butuminous Surfacing (PBS).");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Capt A. Taylor was assigned to the Royal Navy to carry out survey work in Antarctica. For his actions he was awarded the Silver Polar Star.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1950, United Nations troops crossed the 38th parallel and captured most of North Korea. Intervention of Chinese forced the UN to withdraw south of Soeul.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1932, the first of 144 Unemployment Relief Projects was initiated. The RCE was the OPI and over 170,000 personnel were employed.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Capt C.N. Mitchell was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in preventing the destruction of a bridge at Pont d'Aire. Sgt Jackson and Spr Brewer the Distinguished Conduct Medal for their part in this action.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1965, Regional Construction Engineers Offices were established in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the advance party of 16 Field Company embarked on the Empress of Japan enroute to Vladivastock, Siberia.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1944, No 1and 2 Cemetery Construction Units were formed at Ghent.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1966, the Army Survey Establishment was redesignated the Canadian Forces Mapping and Charting Establishment.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1972, the RCE Museum was redesignated as the Canadian Military Engineer Museum and in July 1973 was granted official museum status by National Defence Headquarters.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1954, 2 Field Engineer Regiment was placed on active service to build bridges and other activities due to the damage from Hurricane Hazel in the Toronto area.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1953, 1st Field Engineer Regiment, part of the new Division, was established with its Headquarters at Camp Chilliwack. 23 Field Squadron was redesignated 1 FieldSquadron, 57th became 2 Field Squadron, 58th became 3 Field Squadron, and 59th became 4 Field Squadron.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1957, the 2,130- foot long suspension bridge over the Peace River collapsed. Prompt action by Northwest Highway System personnel opened a detour route within days.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Canadian Engineers became involved in a massive bridge building operation as the army moved forward on their front in France.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1966, 3 Field Squadron began work on 40 miles of road improvement and the construction of a bridge to provide access to the Nemaiah Valley, BC.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1884, the Canadian Nile Voyaguers begin the mission to rescue General Gordon at Khartoum Egypt.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 8 Field Squadron encountered a heavily mined railway crossing (that included 50kg bombs) north of Calmpthout.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Canadian Engineers suffered casualties while clearing extensive mines and booby traps during operations near Bergen-Op-Zoom.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1943 Cpl M.H. Patriquin was awarded the Military Medal for capturing an enemy gun crew near Colle d'Anchise, France.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1903, the formation of a Signalling Corps (Militia) was authorized. Until post-WWI they were part of the Engineers.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1981, 56 Field Engineer Squadron completed a Bailey bridge leading to a Boy Scout Campat Northwest River near Port Blandford, NF.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1949, 56 Field Squadron of St. John's was authorized and recruiting started in March 1950.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 31st Field Company built a Load Class 40 Bailey raft at the Sheldt that carried a D-7 and supplies on a seven mile sea voyage.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1944, L/Sgt A. E. Yeats won the Distinguished Conduct Medal for silencing two enemy pillboxes and capturing 12 enemy while engaged in road clearing operations.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1826, Sappers Bridge was completed in Ottawa over the Rideau Canal.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1899, the liner Sardinian, having been refitted by the Engineers, sailed for South Africa loaded with troops. Four more ships followed.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1944, statistics indicated that No 1 Railway Operating Group had dispatched 165,104 net tons forward in 11,715 wagons made up in 699 trains during October.");
 // November
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Sgt A.G.B. Pratt and LCpl F.L. Breeze crawled forward under machine gun fire to cut the wires leading to a bridge demolition. Each was awarded the Military Medal for their action.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1920, the Engineer Units (except for some Signals units) were disbanded by General Order 192. They had suffered 2004 fatalities during the war.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1967, 2 Field Squadron demolished the Hawkshaw Bridge over the Saint John River in New Brunswick at the request of the Province.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1950, 57th Independent Field Squadron moved to Fort Lewis Washington for training with US Forces prior to deployment to Korea.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1956, the United Nations authorized an emergency peacekeeping force (UNEF) for employment in Egypt. 53 Engineer personnel were included in the initial Canadian unit.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 6)) document.write(" On this date in 1990, 45 Field Engineer Squadron completed building a Load Class 20 Non-Standard Bridge for the local school board on Beechmont Road, Cape Breton.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1943, a Tunneling Company Detachment was employed cutting a section of road in the rock cliff north of Carpinone, Italy.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1914, all ranks of Canadian Engineers in England were employed in the erection of hutments for the Canadian Expeditionary Force.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 1st Canadian Troops Engineers landed in Sicily and were assigned the task of bringing the road from Adrano to Enna up to Load Class 12 standard.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1926, Lt-Col J.P. Fell was appointed honourary Lieutenant Colonel of the 11th District Engineers, the first such appointment in the Canadian Engineers.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the Canadian Railway Troops had a strength 491 officers and 14,390 other ranks with a daily strength of 9000 involved in construction.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the 2nd Battalion built two 140-foot Triple-Triple Bailey bridges over the Albert Canal named “Ottawa” and “Washington” for use by the US Army.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1918, at the end of hostilities, the strength of Canadian Engineers (excluding Signals and Railway troops) was 595 officers and 13,690 men.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1858, the steamer La Plata arrived in British Columbia with 20 Royal Engineers. This was the first of four parties of Royal Engineers sent to help develop the area.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1943, bandmaster WO1 Hardy and 24 bandsmen for he Rifle Brigade were taken on strength as the first RCE band. On 14 Aug the band went to Italy.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1913, the Director General Engineers Services (responsible for works services to the military) came under the Master-General of the Ordnance.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1978, Lt-Col C.N. Mitchell passed away in Mount Royal QC.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Cpl R.I. Gold, British Empire Medal recipient for his rescue work in Ortona, was awarded the Military Medal for clearing a heavily mined road for an armoured patrol.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1858, Lt-Col Moodie and his Sappers were present at the founding of British Columbia. They had worked for five years to develop the colony.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1916, Lt G.A.Johnson of 11th Field Company won the Military Cross for capturing an enemy patrol of an officer and seven men.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1916, Engineer troops of the Canadian Corps were employed in clearing the routes leading into Germany for the Allied Armies.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the “Olafson” footbridge (developed by Capt E.A. Olafson) was accepted as a footbridge that could take jeep traffic.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1946, 3rd Cemetery Construction Unit RCE was the last engineers unit to leave North-West Europe.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Engineers improvised two steel cribs in Italy to enable them to launch a 140-foot Bailey bridge over a 180-foot gap.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1917, 2 Canadian Labour Battalion was reorganized as 12 Battalion Canadian RailwayTroops and employed on light railway construction.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1918, No. 3and 4 Canadian Army Troops Companies and Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Company moved into Germany with HQ Canadian Corps.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1914, the organization of a signal company for 2nd Division (a totally Engineer unit} was begun in Ottawa.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1941, the 159-mile long Haines Access Road between Haines Alaska and Mile 1 on the Alaska Highway was completed.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the Seaforth Canadian Engineer Training Centre began training to prepare Sappers for the return to civilian life.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Lt-Gen Dempsey congratulated the Canadian Engineers on their work having advanced 608 miles in Italy since 3 Sep over very difficult roads.");
 // December
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 1)) document.write("On this date in 1885, the “Engineers Gzowski Challenge Cups” were instituted for annual competition among Engineer units by Colonel Cahmir Stanislas Gzowski.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 2)) document.write("On this date in 1948, Air Defence Group was formed at RCAF Station St-Hubert to co-ordinate Canada's involvement in the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD).");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 3)) document.write("On this date in 1949, the Atlin Road between Mile 866 on the Alaska Highway and the gold mining town of Atlin was opened to traffic after construction by the Northwest Highway System.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 4)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 10 Field Squadron conducted bridging operations with Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE), ARKs (bridges on tank chassis) and the use of barrels and a bulldozer.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 5)) document.write("On this date in 1918, the main body of Engineers of the 16th Field Company arrived in Vladivastok.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 6)) document.write("On this date in 1942, Engineer Tunnellers completed their work in Gibraltar. They had removed approximately 4 tonnes per day for each shift worker.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 7)) document.write("On this date in 1917, the Canadian Signals Company ran courses to train Artillery officers in the use of wireless for observation and fire direction.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 8)) document.write("On this date in 1941, Lt L.G.S. Trovey presented a paper on mapping from obligue photographs - a procedure that Canadian Survey units were to excel in.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 9)) document.write("On this date in 1943, Spr McNaughton, a bulldozer operator, was awarded the Military Medal for his work in constructing a bridge over the Moro River.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 10)) document.write("On this date in 1939, Headquarters RCE, 1st Canadian Division sailed from Halifax for England. By 30 Jan 1940 all elements of 1st Division Engineers had sailed.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 11)) document.write("On this date in 1889, Lt-Col C.N. Mitchell was born in Winnipeg, MB.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 12)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Lt A.H. Nicholson won the Military Cross and Sgt S.M. Armstong the Military Medal for their construction of a 160-foot Triple-Single Load Class 12 Bailey bridge under enemy fire.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 13)) document.write("On this date in 1749, the earliest locally raised “Canadian” artificer unit on record was raised in Halifax with 3 officers and 70 other ranks.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 14)) document.write("On this date in 1949, the construction of the Atlin Road was completed, connecting Atlin, BC with the Alaska Highway.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 15)) document.write("On this date in 1936, 22 new Engineer units were announced; two Field Companies, six Field Park Companies, nine Army Troops Companies, two Anti-Aircraft (Searchlight) Companies, one Electrical & Mechanical Company, one Workshop & Park Company and a Corp Field Survey Company.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 16)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 12 Brigade made effective use of carrier mounted flame-throwers that were developed by the Petroleum Warfare Battalion, RCE.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 17)) document.write("On this date in 1917, 3rd Canadian Labour Battalion (renamed 11 Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops), commenced building their first railway construction task.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 18)) document.write("On this date in 1935, Lt-Col M.A.Pope, RCE was selected to attend Imperial Defence College. He had previously been the first Canadian sapper officer to serve in the British War Office 1931-33.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 19)) document.write("On this date in 1944, Engineer troops on the flanks engaged in “sonic warfare” by creating battle noises to cover a silent attack by 11 Brigade.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 20)) document.write("On this date in 1943, two instructors from 10 Field Squadron were killed during a mine clearing training exercise near the Sango River.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 21)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the Field Companies were directed to post General Purpose sappers to the reinforcement stream for transfer to the Infantry.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 22)) document.write("On this date in 1943, it was reported that, due to commitment on works activities in England, training opportunities for bridging was limited - especially for the new Bailey Bridge.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 23)) document.write("On this date in 1944, 4 Field Company was employed in preparing Bailey bridges for demolition in Italy in case the enemy staged an attack as in Northwest Europe.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 24)) document.write("On this date in 1943, 4th Field Company completed a 170-foot Triple-Single Bailey Bridge just south of Ortona.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 25)) document.write("On this date in 1951, at 0600hrs a reinforcement draft of Engineers for 57 Field Squadron arrived at the railway station in Seoul, Korea. They were served fried bread for breakfast.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 26)) document.write("On this date in 1944, after a day of rest to celebrate Christmas, 12 Field Company upgraded a Class 12 Bailey bridge that had been erected on 24 Dec over the Lamone River to Load Class 40.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 27)) document.write("On this date in 1918, Canadian Railway Troops calculated that they had laid 1038 miles of broad gauge and 823 miles of narrow gauge and repaired 838/385 miles of railroad by the close of the year.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 28)) document.write("On this date in 1943, all available engineer personnel were employed clearing debris from the streets and roads around Ortona after the German Parachutists retreated.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 29)) document.write("On this date in 1915, Cpl A. McI. Morrison was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for carrying out demolitions in the German lines.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 30)) document.write("On this date in 1944, the Directorate of Engineer Development designed and tested a light alloy assault bridge for infantry use with a 100-foot span.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 31)) document.write("On this date in 1942, the Field Companies were assigned a series of demolitions to be carried out in the event of an invasion of England.");
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