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The Cinque Ports Fortress Royal Engineers was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers serving in the defences of Dover, one of the historic Cinque Ports. It provided detachments for field service in World War I and in World War II, when they saw active service in Tunisia, Italy and Greece Its lineal descendant continues to serve in the present day Army Reserve as a bomb disposal unit. ==Origin== When the Territorial Force was established from the old Volunteer Force in 1908, the 1st Sussex Royal Engineers (Volunteers) was split up to provide the field engineer and signal companies of the Home Counties Division and a group of 'Kent and Sussex Fortress Companies'. These became the Sussex Fortress Royal Engineers based at Seaford, East Sussex, the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers based at Gillingham, and a company at Dover entitled the Cinque Ports Fortress Royal Engineers by 1910.〔Westlake, p. 13.〕〔(''London Gazette'' 20 March 1908. )〕〔(''London Gazette'' 15 January 1909. )〕〔(''London Gazette'' 17 May 1910. )〕
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