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Corps of Royal Engineers

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Known as the '''Royal Engineers (RE)''' or commonly as the '''Sappers'''.
 
== Chronology ==
*'''18031716''' 1st company raised Corps of Engineers consisting of officers only formed by Capt T Wood as Bengal Pioneersthe Board of Ordnance*'''18081772''' 2nd company Soldier Artificer Company comprising other ranks raised by Capt T Wood as the Company of Minersin Gibraltar*'''18191787''' part of Bengal Pioneers merged with officer corps became the Company Royal Corps of Miners to form Bengal Sappers and Miners*'''1833''' remaining part Engineers. Corps of Bengal Pioneers merged with Bengal Sappers Royal Military Artificers comprising NCOs and Minersprivate raised*'''18431797''' Gibraltar company absorbed Broadfoot's Sappersby the Corps of Royal Military Artificers*'''1847''' became Bengal Sappers and Pioneers*'''18511812''' Corps of Royal Military Artificers became '''Corps of Bengal Sappers and Pioneers'''*'''1903''' became 1st Royal Sappers and Miners*'''19061856''' became 1st Prince of Wales's Own Sappers Royal Engineers and Miners*'''1910''' became 1st King George V's Own Bengal Royal Sappers and Miners*'''1923''' became King George Va unified corps as the 's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners*'''1937'Corps of Royal Engineers'' became King George V's Bengal Sappers and Miners*'''19411862''' became King George V's Bengal Sappers absorbed the British officers and Miners Group men of the Indian Engineers*'''1946''' became King George V's Group engineer corps of the Royal Indian Engineers*'''1947''' half allocated to East India on Partition and half to PakistanCompany
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===*[http://wwwen.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://www.archivewikipedia.org/stream/lieutenantgener00hervgoog#page/n7wiki/mode/1up ''Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B.: Royal_Engineers Royal (Bengal) Engineers; a Memoir and a Retrospect in the Year of the Mutiny in India''] by Charles Hervey 1887 Archive,org*[http:Wikipedia<br //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>*[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://wwwweb.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy01portgoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http:web/20071007122401/www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy00portgoog#page/n12/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org  ===Other===*[http://en.wikipediaregiments.org/wiki/Pioneer_(military)#Pioneer_regiments_in_the_Indian_Army Pioneer Regiments in the Indian Army] from Pioneer(military) Wikipedia*[http:/regiments/www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm Indian Sappers 1740art-1947] Royal Engineers Museum. Details of the Bengal Engineers are included.*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bengal_Sappers_and_Miners&redirect=no Bengal Sappers & Miners] Wikipedia*[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.knapdalepeople.com/inverengineer.htm Archibald Campbell, Engineer]. Worked in Calcutta on Fort William 1769eng-1771 *[http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographiessig/1823WilliamArden/ChronologyRE.htm Chronology Corps of William Arden Crommelin] with a map and illustrations from [http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1763CharlesRussel/Index.htm Crommelin Family]*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.*[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]]*George Francklin Atkinson was in the Bengal Royal 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. Archivesregiments.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]
====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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