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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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