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Including The '''Bombay Sappers and Miners''' were part of the Indian Army Engineer Soldier Corps comprised the three armies of the Presidencies <ref name=REmus>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090725060217/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm The Royal Engineers Museum and Library “Corps History Part 10 - Indian Engineering Soldiers 1777-1947”]; Retrieved 17 Aug 2016</ref>:- *The [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]] (1777) *The [[Madras Sappers and Miners]] (1780) *The [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]] (1803) ''Not to be confused with'' The '''[[Bombay Engineers]]''' being Engineers of one of the Honourable [[East India Company Armies]]. By the 1740’s each military administration of each presidency had its own cadre of British engineer officers, they were titled:- the [[Bombay Engineers]], the [[Madras Engineers]] and the [[Bengal Engineers]] <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090725060217/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm The Royal Engineers Museum and Library “Corps History Part 10 – Engineersof the Honourable East India Company Army 1750-1862”]; Retrieved 17 Aug 2016</ref> The '''Bombay Sappers and Miners''' originated from a company of 'Lascar Pioneer' in 1777, which was redesignated as 'The Pioneer Corps'. In 1799 a 'Corps of Engineer Lascars and Pontoon Train' was raised its was later renamed the 'Sapper and Miners Company' and by 1820 was merged with the Pioneer Corps. In 1830 it was called the 'Engineers Corps' and seven years later the 'Corps of Bombay Sappers and Miners' (1837). With the Kitchener Reforms in 1903 it was re-titled '3rd Sapper and Miners' and in 1923 become the 'Royal Bombay Sapper and Miners'. In 1941 they became the 'Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners Group' of the Indian Engineers in 1946 the 'Bombay Group' of the Royal Indian Engineers <ref name =REmus/>. The senior Officers were British and the loosely organised military units were later combined into battalions with Indian officers commanding local troops. Officers were in the early years very conscious of the soldiers'local customs, caste rituals, dress, and social hierarchy.
Page revised, 'Bombay Engineers' defined with new link; text and references to Royal Engineers Library added
== Chronology ==
*'''1777''' raised by Major Lawrence Nilson as Pioneer Lascars
*[https://archive.org/details/THEROYALBOMBAYSAPPERSMINERS19391947 ''The Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners 1939 - 1947''] Laurie and Cecilia Norman (eds.) 1999 Archive.org. For some/all browsers, it is not possible to read the original book online, however the “Full Text” version is available, and other download options are probably available.
== References ==
Our grateful thanks to The Royal Engineers Museum and Library, Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME4 4UG, England for permission to cite directly from their website. Some records on websites do not give clear distinctions between the ‘Sappers and Miners’ and the ‘Engineers’.
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