4th Canadian Engineers

The 4th Canadian Division of Royal Canadian Military Engineers are also known as the 4th Canadian Division of Royal Engineers.

Two tunnellers from the Royal Engineers – one from England and one from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada of the 1st Canadian Tunnellers Company – were awarded the Victoria Cross:
 * Sapper William Hackett of the 254 Tunnelling Company, an English Royal Engineer received the award posthumously for helping his fellow miners when a tunnel collapsed at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée, France on 26 June 1916. His medal is held by the Royal Engineers Museum and he is commemorated at the Tunnellers Memorial.
 * Canadian Captain Coulson Norman Mitchell, of No 1 Tunnelling Company, 4th Canadian Division of Royal Canadian Engineers was awarded the Victoria Cross for trying to prevent the demolition of bridges on the Canal de I'Escaut, north-east of Cambrai on 8–9 October 1918.