Bombay Sappers and Miners: Difference between revisions

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Including Bombay Engineers

1777 raised by Major Lawrence Nilson as Pioneer Lascars
1781 became Bombay Pioneers
1820 company of Sappers and Miners raised
1826 2nd company of Sappers and Miners raised
1829 Sappers and Miners renamed the Engineer Corps
1830 Bombay Pioneers absorbed by the Engineer Corps
1833 remaining part of Bengal Pioneers merged with Bengal Sappers and Miners
1840 renamed as the Bombay Sappers & Miners
1903 brought into the Indian Army and became 3rd Bombay Sappers & Miners
1921 became the 3rd Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners
1923 became the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners
1923 became King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
1947 allocated to India on Partition

Pioneer Regiments in the Indian Army from Pioneer(military) Wikipedia
Indian Sappers 1740-1947 Royal Engineers Museum previous website, now archived. Details of the Bombay Engineers are included.
Bombay Engineer Group Wikipedia
Bombay Sappers indiapicks.com
Military Engineers in India in the 20th Century from Royal Engineers and Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth
Aden 1901-04: Fighting in the Aden Hinterland. Delineating an international boundary by Harry Fecitt from Harry’s Sideshows.kaiserscross.com. The force included men from the 4th Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners.
"A Close View of the Disaster at the Sittang Bridge" [Burma 1942] by Major E.R.B. Hudson of Malerkotla Field Company, an affiliated unit of the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners. michiganwarstudiesreview.com

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.
Lists of the officers of His Majesty's and the Hon. Company's troops serving under the Presidency of Bombay from Adjutant General's Office January 1st 1798 Engineer Corps muster roll in Malabar Google Books
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers by Whitworth Porter 1889 Volume 1, Volume 2 Archive.org

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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]
 *[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/462522.html Aden 1901-04: Fighting in the Aden Hinterland. Delineating an international boundary] by Harry Fecitt from Harry’s Sideshows.kaiserscross.com. The force included men from  the 4th Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners.
+*[http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2010/20100706.asp "A Close View of the Disaster at the Sittang Bridge" [Burma 1942<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Major E.R.B. Hudson of Malerkotla Field Company, an affiliated unit of the  Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners. michiganwarstudiesreview.com
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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.