Difference between revisions of "Madras Sappers and Miners"

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Including Madras Engineers

1780 raised as Madras Pioneers
1792 renamed Corps of Madras Pioneers
1831 renamed as Madras Sappers and Miners
1876 renamed Corps of Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
1903 became 2nd Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
1911 became 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
1923 became Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
1932 merged with Bengal and Bombay Sappers to form the Corps of Indian Engineers
1941 became Queen Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers
1946 became Queen Victoria's Own Madras Group, Royal Indian Engineers
1832 merged with Bengal and Bombay Sappers to form the Corps of Indian Engineers
1947 half allocated to India on Partition and half to Pakistan
1950 Madras Centre, Corps of Engineers

Pioneer Regiments in the Indian Army from Pioneer(military) Wikipedia
Indian Sappers 1740-1947 - Royal Engineers Museum. Details of the Madras Engineers are included.
Madras Engineer Group - Wikipedia
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners - www.regiments.org
Madras Sappers - indiapicks.com
Military Engineers in India in the 20th Century from Royal Engineers and Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth
The Military Engineer in India by Lt. Col. E.W.C Sandes 1933 has been reprinted by Naval and Military Press. This may be bought from the FIBIS Shop through Amazon.co.uk. Also available at the British Library
This India List post is about the MEG Museum in Bangalore
From the 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 Memoirs (152 pages pdf), the article Waziristan 1937-1939 ( 9 page pdf) by Lieut Colonel H E M Newman The Royal Engineer Journal Volume 95, number 2, 1984 and this html extract which covers parts of the period 1918-1946. The two latter links are included in the Memoirs.

The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time Volume 1 by Major H M Vibart 1881. Archive.org. Volume 2 1883
Twelve years' military adventure in three quarters of the globe: or, Memoirs of an officer who served in the armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years 1802 and 1814 Volume 1 by John Blakiston 1829 Volume 2. Google Books. He joined the Madras Engineers page 37 in 1802 and served until February 1812, including the 2nd Maratha War and the Expedition to Java in 1811.
Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 by Edward Lake of the Madras Engineers 1825. Google Books
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.
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers by Whitworth Porter 1889 Volume 1, Volume 2 Archive.org

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 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=_G4BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819''] by Edward Lake of the Madras Engineers 1825. Google Books
 *[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.
+*''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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