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Bengal Sappers and Miners

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*'''1946''' became King George V's Group of the Royal Indian Engineers
*'''1947''' half allocated to India on Partition and half to Pakistan
==Regimental histories==
*''The Indian Sappers and Miners'' by E. W. C Sandes [Edward Warren Caulfeild] 1948. (726p). Covers the period from the pioneers in 1759 to the prelude to the Second World War. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011278725
*''A Short History of the Corps of King George’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners During the War, 1914-1918'' by Colonel A H Cunningham. This book is available at the [[British Library]] but is catalogued under the shorter title ''A short history of the Corps of K.G.O. Sappers and Miners during the war, 1914-1918''. UIN: BLL01013577494
==First World War==Regimental History: ''A Short History of the Corps of King George’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners During the War, 1914-1918'' by Colonel A H Cunningham. This book is available at the [[British Library]] but is catalogued under the shorter title ''A short history of the Corps of K.G.O. Sappers and Miners during the war, 1914-1918'' == External Links links =====Historical Books Onlinebooks online===
*[https://archive.org/details/majorjamesrennel00markuoft ''Major James Rennell and the rise of modern English geography''] by Clements R Markham 1895 Archive.org. Rennell arrived in India with the Royal Navy in 1760, transferred to the East India Company in 1763, and in 1764 was appointed Surveyor-General of Bengal, and also was commissioned as a ensign in the Bengal Engineers, aged 21. He remained in India until 1777. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rennell James Rennell] Wikipedia
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eDNcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John Macdonald''] 1831 Google Books. He became a cadet of the Bombay Army in 1780, first in the infantry , then the Engineers. In 1782 he joined the Bengal Engineers and was sent to Bencoolen and mainly performed survey work in this area until 1796. (Note, an unrelated book follows the Memoir)
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