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1st Combat Engineer Regiment The Regiment comprises four sub-units: 1st Field Squadron, 9th Field Squadron, 23rd Support Squadron and the Operational Support Squadron.

This Australian Army Official Page is for all past or present serving members, families and friends of serving members, people interested in joining, or those who have a general interest in the 1st Combat Engineer Regiment. The 1st Combat Engineer Regiment (1 CER) is based out of Robertson Barracks in Darwin and provides combat engineer support to the combined arms teams of the Australian Army's 1st Brigade.

1 Field Squadron recently deployed a team to support the 26th Garma Festival, delivering an essential combat engineer e...
26/09/2026

1 Field Squadron recently deployed a team to support the 26th Garma Festival, delivering an essential combat engineer effect to one of Australia’s most significant cultural events.

Our Sappers achieved:
- Qualification of 15 personnel in Intermediate Tree Felling
- Supply of 40 tons of firewood for festival activities
- Clearance of deadfall and cyclone‑damaged trees to ensure a safe environment for more than 3,500 attendees
- Strengthening of our timber‑winning skills in support of operational requirements
- Building our disaster‑response capability to better support local communities across the Northern Territory

We are proud to stand alongside our community, enhance our readiness for war, and contribute to the success of Garma Festival 2026

Mind the gap? Nah just Bridge it... 9 Fd Sqn spent battle PT building an improvised floating bridge, using the highly v...
11/09/2026

Mind the gap? Nah just Bridge it... 9 Fd Sqn spent battle PT building an improvised floating bridge, using the highly versatile Army Utility Watercraft (AUW). This allowed our mates from 1 Fd Sqn to cross the pool high and dry. Sometimes you just need to build a bridge and get over it.

What happens when the SSM is stabbed with running Battle PT? 9 Fd Sqn spent Wednesday morning with fixed Bayonets. Bayo...
09/09/2026

What happens when the SSM is stabbed with running Battle PT? 9 Fd Sqn spent Wednesday morning with fixed Bayonets. Bayonet Training instills a Combat Mindset in our Sappers while practicing controlled agrression and disciplined violence. 9 Fd is ready to keep calm and fix bayonets should the need arise.

Combat Rescue Troop recently had the opportunity to work alongside NTPOL SAR/Traffic, St John NT, and TACMED/TOLL Aerome...
28/08/2026

Combat Rescue Troop recently had the opportunity to work alongside NTPOL SAR/Traffic, St John NT, and TACMED/TOLL Aeromedical clinicians and crew during a Remote Retrieval Exercise at Lee Point. ⛑️

The exercise provided a great opportunity to work together in a realistic remote trauma scenario, focusing on patient care and packaging, casualty movement, interagency coordination and preparation for aeromedical winch retrieval. 🚁

A valuable day of training and a great chance to build relationships and learn from the different agencies and capabilities involved. 🙌



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🚧💪🛠️ Going Underground 🛠️💪🚧Construction Troop, 23 SPT SQN, recently completed a containerised bunker, with aim to provid...
24/08/2026

🚧💪🛠️ Going Underground 🛠️💪🚧

Construction Troop, 23 SPT SQN, recently completed a containerised bunker, with aim to provide a functional command post solution and reduce construction timelines contrast to conventional bunkers. This reduces exposure for our Sappers in hostile environments and provides an increased level of hardening and resilience for command nodes to operate from. 📡

Designed with consideration to communications requirements, overhead protection, full blackout lighting, and incorporating internal electrical, ventilation, and plumbed drainage solutions, the bunker sits within a steel and HESCO exo-skeleton, enabling rapid installation. Construction required strong cooperation between trade 🦺, plant 🚜 and combat engineer🪏elements, seeing involvement across a suite of our Regimental engineer capabilities.

The final product looks great - Check out the journey and the results!!



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1 CER back on the road and heading home to Darwin after Ex Pozieres Run 26 💪
23/08/2026

1 CER back on the road and heading home to Darwin after Ex Pozieres Run 26 💪

Lead trace 1 CER hits QLD!Sappers and soldiers from the Regiment make the move to conduct training with our mates in the...
17/07/2026

Lead trace 1 CER hits QLD!

Sappers and soldiers from the Regiment make the move to conduct training with our mates in the 3rd Brigade.

For those families and friends who need to contact their loved ones over this period, please call the 1 CER Duty Officer on 0419 143 384.

1 CER and 1 CSR Competing for the Stan Watson Shield. With sporting events, touch football, volleyball, basketball, clar...
30/06/2026

1 CER and 1 CSR Competing for the Stan Watson Shield. With sporting events, touch football, volleyball, basketball, clark mast race, run swim run and dodge ball.

With a hard fought effort from both regiments. But there could only be one winner with 1 CER coming home with the shield for 2026!

E61C showing their trade skills (amongst skirmishes), whilst inside the FOB at MBTA, building a lasting observation towe...
29/05/2026

E61C showing their trade skills (amongst skirmishes), whilst inside the FOB at MBTA, building a lasting observation tower that oversees the AO and will be there for years to come.

Strong points and Counter -drone netting. What did you do with your weekend? 9 Fd with some mates from MRF-D have been ...
28/05/2026

Strong points and Counter -drone netting. What did you do with your weekend? 9 Fd with some mates from MRF-D have been banging it in at Mount Bundey. Hard rocks build tough Sappers.

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