Bombay Sappers and Miners

Including Bombay Engineers

Chronology

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 Bombay Sappers and Miners
1947 allocated to India on Partition

Digest of the Services of the Bombay Sappers and Miners by G. H. W O'Sullivan 1895. Available at the British Library.
A Short History of the 17th and 22nd Field Companies, Third Sappers and Miners in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918. Available at the Imperial War Museums.
History of the 20th (Field) Company, Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners Great War 1914-1918. Available at the Imperial War Museums.
A Brief History of the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners. Published Kirkee 1924. Available at the Imperial War Museums.
- This publication was extended, to include the period up to 1939, by Colonel LO Clark OBE in 1947.

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
Watercolour by Charles James Lyall: 1903. Subadur Major Rup Singh. Bombay Sappers & Miners Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.
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
The Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners 1939 - 1947 Laurie and Cecilia Norman (eds.) 1999 Archive.org. For some/all browsers, it is not possible to read the original book online, however the “Full Text” version is available, and other download options are probably available.