101 Engineer Regiment (EOD) has been based in north Essex since April 2010. In 2009, 33 Engineer Regiment, which is also based at Carver Barracks, was given the honorary freedom of Uttlesford.

The EOD unit, which owns the robots, provided instruction for the engineers in E Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment.

The soldier, from 101 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), died in a firefight with insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province yesterday.

A British Army bomb disposal expert has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. The soldier, from 101 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), died in a ...