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'''R Raoul De Bourbel''' Capt. R.E.(1872) *1850 Jun 14, Bengal Engineers, appointed 2nd Lieut. <ref name=NAL1864>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=wOwNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA101 "The New Army List - Royal Engineers , late Bengal Engineers 1864"]; Retrieved on 4 Aug 2016</ref>.*1855 Jan 23, Bengal Engineers, promoted 1st Lieut. <ref name=NAL1864/>*1858 Aug 27, Bengal Engineers, promoted Captain <ref name=NAL1864/>*1862 Apr 1, the Bengal Engineers (together with the Bombay and Madras Engineers) were amalgamated into the Corps of Royal Engineers (R.E.) <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090725060217/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm Royal Engineers Museum "Engineers of the Honourable East India Company Army, 1750-1862; Bengal Engineers"]; Retrieved on 4 Aug 2016</ref>.
==Railway Acheivements==
*1870 May 16, Joined PWD service <ref name=CL1872>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6woLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA82/mode/2up Google Books "The Indian Army and Civil Service List - July 1872", page 82]; Retrieved on 28 Jul 2016</ref>.
*1872 Civil List, Railway Department, Lucknow, [[Railway Branch - PWD|Railway Branch]] Bengal [[Public Works Department]](PWD) <ref name=CL1872/>
*1882-87, [[Jubilee Bridge]] , known originally as the Hooghly River Bridge. Consulting Engineers to Government. ''No further information found'*1888-c.1890, In charge of [[Jammu and Kashmir Railway]] construction 'General R De Bourbel R. E., the Chief Engineer of the State of Kashmir <ref> [[British Library]] IOR/R/2/1061/S” Railway from Sialkot to Jammu”, 1888</ref>
==Probate Record==
1904.Maj Gen Raoul de BOURBEL, 8th Marquis Montpinon, Marquis of Srinager Kashmir India retired Major General in the Royal Engineers died 25 Mar 1904 at Lahore India. Probate London on 1 Jul to Augustus Alfred de Bourbel retired Capt in H.M. Army and James Francis Herbert Collett Esq. Effects £2150 4s 6d
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