Introduction

Welcome to the Royal Engineers Association – Bomb Disposal Branch website.

The aim of the site is to provide a meeting point for all those involved in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) or Search whether serving ex-serving members of the Royal Engineers and a source of material for those researching the work of the Royal Engineers or family history and the wider EOD community.

You can also join us on Facebook (Ex or Serving EOD only) follow us on Twitter or connect with us on LinkedIn (please see links in the footer of this page.

If you wish to donate to the branch , please use the button.

The REA BD Branch was formed in 1946 as an Old Comrades Association, formed by the veterans of the Second World War.

In 1951 it was renamed the REA BD Branch and is part of the Royal Engineers Association. Membership is open to all serving and ex-serving, Regular or TA, from Sapper to Colonel, and we look forward to welcoming you into the branch.

The Branch has active links with the EOD Regiments, 33 Engineer Regiment EOD , 35 Engineer Regiment EOD,101 Engineer Regiment EOD, and 29 EOD & Search Group. Current membership exceeds 500 and our membership covers the globe and we help the members to reconnect with old comrades and keep updated on EOD deployments and developments.

Each year a contingent of the Branch represents the EOD at the annual service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London.

We firmly believe in the REA motto “Service not Self”