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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
20.11.2005
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Queen Victoria's
Own
Madras Sappers and Miners
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India
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1780 |
Madras
Pioneers |
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1792 |
Corps of
Madras Pioneers |
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1831 |
Madras Sappers
and Miners |
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1876 |
Queen's Own
Madras Sappers and Miners
royal accolade granted by Queen
Victoria |
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1903 |
2nd Queen's
Own Sappers and Miners |
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1911 |
2nd Queen
Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners |
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1923 |
Queen Victoria's
Own Sappers and Miners |
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1941 |
Queen Victoria's
Own Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers |
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1946 |
Queen Victoria's
Own Madras Group, Royal Indian Engineers |
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1947 |
allocated
to India at independence and partition |
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1950 |
Madras Centre,
Corps of Engineers |
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19uu |
Madras Engineer
Group and Center |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Carnatic,
Sholinghur, Mysore,
Seringapatam,
Egypt1,
Assaye, Java,
Nagpore, Maheidpoor,
Ava, China2,
Meeanee, Hyderabad,
Pegu, Persia,
Lucknow, Central India,
Taku Forts, Pekin,
Abyssinia, Afghanistan
1878-80, Egypt
1882, Tel-el-Kebir, Suakin
1885, Tofrek, Burma
1885-87, Chitral,
Punjab Frontier, Malakand, Tirah, China
1900
The Great War: France
and Flanders 1914-15, Suez
Canal, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza,
Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris
1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-18, Persia
1918, NW Frontier India
1914-15 '17, East
Africa 1918
Afghanistan
1919
The Second World War: Abyssinia
1940-41, Iraq 1941,
Syria 1941, Malaya
1941-42, Mersa
Matruh, North
Africa 1940-43, Cassino
I, Italy 1943-45,
Ngakedauk Pass, Tamu
Road, Bishenpur, Meiktila,
Burma 1942-45
Zoji La,
Jammu and Kashmir 1947-48, Jammu
and Kashmir 1965, Punjab 1965, East
Pakistan 1971, Jammu and Kashmir 1971, Basantar River,
Punjab 1971
1. the Sphinx badge.
2. the Dragon badge.
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