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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.
*[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.
*''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
*''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
*"Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, K.C.S.I., C.B., R.E". by Lieutenant C.R. Low, (Late) Indian Navy. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221  Part 1: Affghanistan, 1839 and Gwalior, 1843-44], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374 Part 2: The Second Sikh War, 1848-49 and The Indian Mutiny, 1857], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kdcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 Part 3] ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1871 Part 1'' pages 221,389, ''Part 2'' page 25
*"Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, K.C.S.I., C.B., R.E". by Lieutenant C.R. Low, (Late) Indian Navy. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221  Part 1: Affghanistan, 1839 and Gwalior, 1843-44], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374 Part 2: The Second Sikh War, 1848-49 and The Indian Mutiny, 1857], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kdcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 Part 3] ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1871 Part 1'' pages 221,374, ''Part 2'' page 25


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Including Bengal Engineers

Chronology

  • 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

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