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*[http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Forces/960_Madras_Sappers.htm Madras Sappers] - indiapicks.com
*[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.bl.uk/eblj/1991articles/pdf/article10.pdf "Colin Mackenzie: Collector Extraordinary"] by David M.Blake ''British Library Journal 1991'' pages 128-150. Mackenzie was an officer in the Madras Engineers and had arrived in Madras in 1793. At the time of his death in 1821, he was Surveyor-General of India.
*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.
