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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 20.11.2005
 
 
The Royal Bombay
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How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
1777 Lascar Pioneers
1781 The Pioneer Corps
1820 absorbed Sappers and Miners Company [raised 1799 as Corps of Engineer Lascars and Pontoon Train]
1830 Engineer Corps
1837 Corps of Bombay Sappers and Miners
1903 3rd Sappers and Miners
1921 3rd Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners
1923 Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners
1941 Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers
1946 Bombay Group, Royal Indian Engineers
1947 ca. 40% of personnel allocated to Royal Pakistan Engineers at independence and partition
1950 Bombay Centre, Corps of Engineers
19uu Bombay Engineer Group and Center
   
   
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Beni Boo Ali, Ghuznee 1839, Afghanistan, Khelat, Mooltan, Goojerat, Punjaub, Persia, Reshire, Koosh-ab, Bushire, Central India, Abyssinia, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878-80, Burma 1885-87, Punjab Frontier, Tirah, China 1900, Somaliland 1901-04

The Great War: La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915, St. Julien, Aubers, France and Flanders 1914-15, Megiddo, Sharon, Nablus, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Basra, Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1914-18, Persia 1918-19, NW Frontier India 1916-17, Baluchistan 1918, Kilimanjaro, East Africa 1914-18

Afghanistan 1919

The Second World War: Abyssinia 1940-41, Syria 1941, Kuantan, Malaya 1941-42, North Africa 1940-43, Italy 1943-45, Greece 1944-45, Defence of Sinzweya, Myinmu Bridgehead, Defence of Meiktila, Burma 1942-45

Rajaori, Jammu and Kashmir 1947-48, Jammu and Kashmir 1965, Sylhet, East Pakistan 1971, Jammu and Kashmir 1971, Punjab 1971

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vc 2/Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, VC, by Ed Haynes.
Capt. Peter Toole's War, by Adrian Toole.
Indian Sappers and Miners, by Edward de Santis.
 
 
 
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