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== External Links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Engineers Royal Engineers] Wikipedia<br />*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071007122401/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RE.htm Corps of Royal Engineers] regiments.org*[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.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 detailed history of the Royal Engineers in India 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]]*From the [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/ Main Index of "A Newman Family Tree"], select H E M Newman. He was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers on 19 December 1919 and posted to India in 1924 as an officer of the Madras Sappers and Miners. He was in India until 1929 and again in India and Burma 1936-1943. The site includes his [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/H.E.M.Newman-memoirs%202c.pdf Memoirs] (152 pages pdf), the article [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/RE_Journal_1984.pdf Waziristan 1937-1939] ( 9 page pdf) by Lieut Colonel H E M Newman ''The Royal Engineer Journal Volume 95, number 2, 1984'' and this [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/Missing-Years.html html extract] which covers parts of the period 1918-1946. The two latter links are included in the Memoirs.
====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 1889Archive.org<br />*[http:://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy00portgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol II''] by Maj-Gen Whitworth Porter 1889 Archive.org **[http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy00watsgoog#page/n61/mode/2up Vol II 2nd Afghan War and Egyptian Campaign 1882]<br />
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/kandaharin02messgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''Kandahar in 1879: The Diary of Major Le Messurier R.E., Brigade Major R. E. with the Quetta Column''] 1880 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cioBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Army Equipment: Part III-Section 1 Engineers : Equipment of a Company of Engineers''] by Lieut-Colonel A. C. Cooke RE 1866 Google Books
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