3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (Australia)

{{short description|Australian Army engineer unit}}

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File:3rd Combat Engineer Regiment soldiers clear a building during exercise Hamel 15.jpg

The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3 CER) is an Australian Army modular engineer regiment trained for sapper/combat engineer operations. The unit is based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, Queensland and is part of the 3rd Brigade. It has deployed to Bougainville as part of the South Pacific Peacekeeping Force,{{cite news |title=Bougainville Peace Talks |author=Nettleton, G. |year=1995 |journal=Sapper News |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=11}} to the Solomon Islands under Operation Anode,{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} and has also served in Timor-Leste,{{sfn|Vann|2001|}} Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}