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The North Riding (Fortress) Royal Engineers was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed for the defence of the Tees Estuary in the North Riding of Yorkshire. As well as serving in this role it also provided specialist engineer units in both World Wars. Its descendants continued to serve in the Territorial Army until 1999. ==Origin== When Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke, Inspector-General of Fortifications 1882–6, did not have enough Regular Royal Engineers (RE) to man the fixed mines being installed to defend British seaports, he utilised the Volunteer Engineers for this task. After successful trials the system was rolled out to ports around the country,〔Beckett, pp. 184–5.〕〔Short ''et al'', pp. 1–4.〕 and a new Volunteer company was raised at Middlesbrough on 27 November 1886 to cover the Tees Estuary, entitled Tees Division Submarine Miners. It ranked 5th in the list of volunteer submarine mining divisions, moving up to 4th in 1891 when the Humber Division was converted into Militia.〔Westlake, p. 10.〕〔(North Riding Fortress Engineers at Regiments.org. )〕 It consisted of two companies with Headquarters at Bright Street, Middlesbrough (shared with a section of the Coast Brigade of the Regular RE). The Commanding Officer was Captain (later Major) John Thomas Belk, a solicitor and local government clerk, who was succeeded by T. Belk in 1898.〔(''London Gazette'', 23 September 1887. )〕〔(''Bulmer's Directory'', 1890. )〕〔(''Kelly's Directory'', 1905. )〕 By 1907 the War Office had decided to hand all submarine mining duties over to Militia units and the Volunteer submarine miners were converted into electrical engineers to continue manning the electric searchlights of the harbour defences. The Middlesbrough unit was briefly retitled the Tees Division Electrical Engineers.〔〔''Quarterly Army List'', October 1907.〕
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