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Individuals
==Individuals==
*[http://archive.org/stream/incidentsandane00sprogoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Incidents and Anecdotes in the Life of '''Lieut.-General Sprot ''' Volume 1''] 1906 Archive.org. The author spent 12 years in India, from 1849, [http://archive.org/stream/incidentsandane00sprogoog#page/n34/mode/2up page 13], with the British Army [[83rd Regiment of Foot]] but much of this time was attached to the Public Works Department, Bombay Presidency.*'''Lieutenant John C Harris ''' of the [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal Engineers]] was involved in flood mitigation work following a major flood at Cuttack in 1855. See [[Cuttack]] for details.*[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/genealogy/dibblee/index.htm '''Frederick Lewis Dibblee''']. Railway engineer. Worked in India 1864-1888*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022898211 ''Village, Town, and Jungle life in India''] 
by '''A.C. Newcombe ''' 1905 Archive.org He was in India 1874-1902 as a Civil Engineer in the Public Works Department*'''Tom Salkield ''' , was Engineer to the Municipality of Delhi 1905-1922. He was awarded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisar-i-Hind Kaiser-i-Hind] decoration for public service in India .He was also in the Punjab Volunteer Rifles for 16 years. There are further details in his obituary ''ICE Proceedings Volume 16, Issue 3, 01 July 1960'' , pages 348 –349. <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/iicep/16/3 ''ICE Proceedings Volume 16, Issue 3, 01 July 1960'' , pages 348 –349] </ref> Details of [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022YY Tom Salkield Delhi Photograph Album 1905-1916] Janus (Archives in Cambridge)*"East African Campaign 1914 – 1918: Faridkot Sappers & Miners" by Richard Sneyd [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FCampaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Campaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf pdf] gweaa.com. '''Robert (Robin) Thomas Stuart Sneyd''' was working as a civil engineer in Madras Presidency when he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in March 1915 and joined the Faridkots at Voi in British East Africa in October 1915 as a Lieutenant.*'''Charles Spedding''', Engineer, of the road making contacting company Spedding & Co, making the road from Gilgit to Kashmir c 1891, and '''W.P. Appleford''', an engineer employee - refer [[Punjab Rifles]]*[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/iicep.1957.1944 '''Colonel Frederick Charles Temple''', C.I.E., C.B.E., V.D., 1879-1957] Obituary ICE Virtual Library. He came to India c 1905 and served in various capacities with the Military Works Services and with the Public Works Department. In 1919 he was appointed Chief Town Engineer and later Administrator, for the Tata Iron and Steel Co., being responsible for the design and building of the town of [[Jamshedpur]]. Later, he became Relief Engineer and Supply Officer to the Government of Bihar and Orissa after the January 1934 earthquake and was responsible for the reconstruction of the towns, roads and bridges destroyed.
* Sample pages from ''Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 3: 1890–1920'', published 2014 by ICE Publishing. icevirtuallibrary.com
**[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.163 '''John Edwin Dallas ''' 1855-1938] Indian PWD, Railway Branch c late 1870s Bombay etc, Assam, Burma. Retired 1910. **[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.457 '''Sir Francis Langford O’Callaghan ''' (1839-1909)]. Indian PWD, Railways 1862-1894, including north-west frontier.**[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.626 '''Brigadier-General Sir William Danvers Waghorn ''' (1867-1936)]. Commissioned as a Royal Engineer 1887, joined the Public Works Department, Railways. Served in the Boer War as Deputy Assistant Director of Railways, and the Western Front, WW1 as Chief Engineer of XVII Corps. Retired 1924 India. 
== External links ==
*[http://www.indianetzone.com/36/developments_public_works_british_india.htm Developments in Public Works, British India] from History of India, Indianetzone
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