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Authors
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T.F.
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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
20.11.2005
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The Royal
Bombay
Sappers and Miners
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India
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1777 |
Lascar
Pioneers |
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1781 |
The Pioneer
Corps |
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1820 |
absorbed
Sappers and Miners Company [raised 1799 as Corps of Engineer
Lascars and Pontoon Train] |
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1830 |
Engineer
Corps |
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1837 |
Corps of
Bombay Sappers and Miners |
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1903 |
3rd Sappers
and Miners |
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1921 |
3rd Royal
Bombay Sappers and Miners |
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1923 |
Royal Bombay
Sappers and Miners |
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1941 |
Royal Bombay
Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers |
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1946 |
Bombay Group,
Royal Indian Engineers |
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1947 |
ca.
40% of personnel allocated to Royal
Pakistan Engineers at independence and partition |
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1950 |
Bombay Centre,
Corps of Engineers |
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19uu |
Bombay Engineer
Group and Center |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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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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