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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
===Other===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bengal_Sappers_and_Miners&redirect=no Bengal Sappers & Miners] Wikipedia
===Historical Books Online===
===Historical Books Online===
*[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
*[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
*[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
*[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
===Other===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bengal_Sappers_and_Miners&redirect=no Bengal Sappers & Miners] Wikipedia
*[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]


[[Category:Indian Army Sappers and Miners]]
[[Category:Indian Army Sappers and Miners]]
[[Category:Bengal Army]]
[[Category:Bengal Army]]
[[Category:Bengal Sappers & Miners]]
[[Category:Bengal Sappers & Miners]]

Revision as of 04:50, 16 January 2010

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Bengal Sappers and Miners
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3rd Sappers and Miners

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

External Links

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