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Bombay Sappers soldiers 3rd Bombay Sappers and Miners (1910). The Bombay Sappers draw their origins back to the late 18th century when the British had become a new force in the politics of India which then consisted of a large number of kingdoms and fiefdoms; the principal ones being the Maratha confederacy, Mysore, Hyderabad and Berar, with British presidencies at Bombay, Madras and Bengal in ...
Subsequently, the Group of Madras, Bengal and Bombay Sappers were formed in their respective presidencies. These Groups came together when the British Indian Army was formed after 1857 and were later merged on 18 November 1932 to form the Corps of Indian Engineers. Engineer Groups initially consisted of field companies (a sub-unit organisation ...
The Bombay Sappers and Miners were authorised 36 mules. [41] The 24th and 26th Regiments of Bombay Infantry were authorised 80 extra Sepoys each. Pioneer Regiments were authorised 24 Artificers each (2 Havildars, 2 Naik and 20 Sepoys) each. The Havildar and Naik Artificers were supernumerary NCOs. [42]
Soldiers of No 2 Field Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners on duty in China in 1900. The mule carries the tools required for field engineering tasks. A sapper, in the sense first used by the French military, was one who dug trenches to allow besieging forces to advance towards the enemy defensive works and forts over ground that is under the defenders' musket or artillery fire.
Bhagat applied himself to his studies in his final year and was commissioned in the British Indian Army on 15 July 1939 as a Second lieutenant (2Lt.) in the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners. He was posted to the 21 Field Company of Engineers at Pune in September, shortly after war began in Europe. [3]
17th Field Company (Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners) - Major N.S. Bhagat – IE [3] 11th Division Command Troops; 3rd Cavalry – Lt. Col. Julian Gerald Barnes De Wilton; 137th (2nd West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – Lt. Col. Gilbert Daly Holmes ( † at Slim River)
1st King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923) 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923) 3rd Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923) 4th Burma Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923) 1st Madras Pioneers; 2nd Bombay Pioneers; 3rd Sikh Pioneers; 4th Hazara Pioneers
The Commander-in-Chief of India, Lord Kitchener carried out a reform of the British Indian Army in 1903. These reforms were intended to improve the Army, which had been formed from the separate Bengal, Bombay and Madras presidency armies in 1895 to be replaced by the Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Punjab commands.