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Including Bengal Engineers

1803 1st company raised by Capt T Wood as Bengal Pioneers
1808 2nd company raised by Capt T Wood as the Company of Miners
1819 part of Bengal Pioneers merged with the Company of Miners to form Bengal Sappers and Miners
1833 remaining part of Bengal Pioneers merged with Bengal Sappers and Miners
1843 absorbed Broadfoot's Sappers
1847 became Bengal Sappers and Pioneers
1851 became Corps of Bengal Sappers and Pioneers
1903 became 1st Sappers and Miners
1906 became 1st Prince of Wales's Own Sappers and Miners
1910 became 1st King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
1923 became King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
1937 became King George V's Bengal Sappers and Miners
1941 became King George V's Bengal Sappers and Miners Group of the Indian Engineers
1946 became King George V's Group of the Royal Indian Engineers
1947 half allocated to India on Partition and half to Pakistan

Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B.: Royal (Bengal) Engineers; a Memoir and a Retrospect in the Year of the Mutiny in India by Charles Hervey 1887 Archive,org
Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers by Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray 1900 Archive.org
Addiscombe, its heroes and men of note by Colonel H. M. Vibart 1894 Archive.org. Addiscombe was the East India Company Military Academy in England for the training of cadets for the Engineers, Artillery and Infantry.

Pioneer Regiments in the Indian Army from Pioneer(military) Wikipedia
Indian Sappers 1740-1947 Royal Engineers Museum. Details of the Bengal Engineers are included.
Bengal Sappers & Miners Wikipedia
Military Engineers in India in the 20th Century from Royal Engineers and Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth
Archibald Campbell, Engineer. Worked in Calcutta on Fort William 1769-1771
Chronology of William Arden Crommelin with a map and illustrations from Crommelin Family
This India List post and this post mention the recruitment of sappers in England c 1790’s and later.
The Military Engineer in India by Lt. Col. E.W.C Sandes 1933 has been reprinted by Naval and Military Press. This book may be bought from the FIBIS Shop through Amazon.co.uk. Also available at the British Library
George Francklin Atkinson was in the Bengal Engineers in the Umballa Division . He was the author of "Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India, first published 1858. Archives.org. He died in 1858 and his career is mentioned in this Archives.org link

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 *This  India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-05/1274084957  post] and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-05/1274364941 post] mention the recruitment of sappers in England  c 1790’s and later.
 *[http://www.naval-military-press.com/military-engineer-in-india..html  ''The Military Engineer in India''] by Lt. Col. E.W.C Sandes 1933 has been reprinted by Naval and Military Press. This book may be bought from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1843420422 FIBIS Shop] through Amazon.co.uk. Also available at the [[British Library]]
+*George Francklin Atkinson was in the Bengal Engineers in the Umballa Division . He was the author of [http://www.archive.org/stream/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India''], first published 1858. Archives.org.  He died in 1858 and his career is mentioned in this [http://www.archive.org/stream/balladsofburmaan00oolarich#page/4/mode/2up Archives.org link]