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| | Known as the '''Royal Engineers (RE)''' or commonly as the '''Sappers'''. |
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| == Chronology == | | == Chronology == |
| *'''1803''' 1st company raised by Capt T Wood as Bengal Pioneers | | *'''1716''' Corps of Engineers consisting of officers only formed by the Board of Ordnance |
| *'''1808''' 2nd company raised by Capt T Wood as the Company of Miners | | *'''1772''' Soldier Artificer Company comprising other ranks raised in Gibraltar |
| *'''1819''' part of Bengal Pioneers merged with the Company of Miners to form Bengal Sappers and Miners | | *'''1787''' officer corps became the Royal Corps of Engineers. Corps of Royal Military Artificers comprising NCOs and private raised |
| *'''1833''' remaining part of Bengal Pioneers merged with Bengal Sappers and Miners
| | *'''1797''' Gibraltar company absorbed by the Corps of Royal Military Artificers |
| *'''1843''' absorbed Broadfoot's Sappers | | *'''1812''' Corps of Royal Military Artificers became Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners |
| *'''1847''' became Bengal Sappers and Pioneers | | *'''1856''' Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners became a unified corps as the '''Corps of Royal Engineers''' |
| *'''1851''' became '''Corps of Bengal Sappers and Pioneers'''
| | *'''1862''' absorbed the British officers and men of the engineer corps of the East India Company |
| *'''1903''' became 1st Sappers and Miners
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| *'''1906''' became 1st Prince of Wales's Own Sappers and Miners | |
| *'''1910''' became 1st King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
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| *'''1923''' became King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
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| *'''1937''' became King George V's Bengal Sappers and Miners
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| *'''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
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| *'''1947''' half allocated to India on Partition and half to Pakistan
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| == External Links == | | == External Links == |
| ===Historical Books Online===
| | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Engineers Royal Engineers] Wikipedia<br /> |
| *[http://www.google.com/books?id=Jc0KAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA387 "Bengal Sieges: Plan of a Pioneer Corps, and a Company of Sappers, originally prepared by the late Major General Horsford:— Siege of Adjeegurh, in Bundlecund"] ''The British Indian Military Repository,Volume 4, Part 3'', page 387. 1826 Google Books
| | [http://web.archive.org/web/20071007122401/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RE.htm Corps of Royal Engineers] regiments.org |
| *[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantgener00hervgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''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
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| *[http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalnoti00thaciala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers''] by Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray 1900 Archive.org
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| *[http://www.archive.org/stream/addiscombeitsher00viba#page/n7/mode/2up ''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.
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| *''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers'' by Whitworth Porter 1889 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy01portgoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy00portgoog#page/n12/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org
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| ===Other===
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| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_(military)#Pioneer_regiments_in_the_Indian_Army Pioneer Regiments in the Indian Army] from Pioneer(military) Wikipedia
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| *[http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm Indian Sappers 1740-1947] Royal Engineers Museum. Details of the Bengal Engineers are included.
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| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bengal_Sappers_and_Miners&redirect=no Bengal Sappers & Miners] Wikipedia
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| *[http://www.reubique.com/indiaeng.htm Military Engineers in India in the 20th Century] from [http://www.reubique.com/ Royal Engineers and Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth]
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| *[http://www.knapdalepeople.com/inverengineer.htm Archibald Campbell, Engineer]. Worked in Calcutta on Fort William 1769-1771
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| *[http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1823WilliamArden/Chronology.htm Chronology of William Arden Crommelin] with a map and illustrations from [http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1763CharlesRussel/Index.htm Crommelin Family]
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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.
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| *[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]]
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| *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]
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| | ====Historical Books Online==== |
| | [http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy01portgoog#page/n9/mode/1up History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I] by Maj-Gen Whitworth Porter 1889<br /> |
| | :[http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy00watsgoog#page/n61/mode/2up Vol II 2nd Afghan War and Egyptian Campaign 1882]<br /> |
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| [[Category:Indian Army Sappers and Miners]] | | [[Category:British Army]] |
| [[Category:Bengal Army]] | | [[Category:British Army Engineers| ]] |
| [[Category:Bengal Sappers & Miners]]
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Known as the Royal Engineers (RE) or commonly as the Sappers.
Chronology
- 1716 Corps of Engineers consisting of officers only formed by the Board of Ordnance
- 1772 Soldier Artificer Company comprising other ranks raised in Gibraltar
- 1787 officer corps became the Royal Corps of Engineers. Corps of Royal Military Artificers comprising NCOs and private raised
- 1797 Gibraltar company absorbed by the Corps of Royal Military Artificers
- 1812 Corps of Royal Military Artificers became Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
- 1856 Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners became a unified corps as the Corps of Royal Engineers
- 1862 absorbed the British officers and men of the engineer corps of the East India Company
External Links
Royal Engineers Wikipedia
Corps of Royal Engineers regiments.org
Historical Books Online
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I by Maj-Gen Whitworth Porter 1889
- Vol II 2nd Afghan War and Egyptian Campaign 1882