Bengal Engineer Group
Bengal Engineer Group | |
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Theatre honours | |
Commanders | |
Colonel Comdt of Bengal Sappers | Lt Gen Harpal Singh, AVSM, VSM[1] |
Colonel of the Regiment | Lt Gen S. K. Srivastava Engineer - in - Chief[2] |
Notable commanders | Lt Gen J. S. Dhillon, Padma Bhushan, PVSM Lt Gen K. N. Dubey, PVSM |
The Bengal Engineer Group (BEG) (informally the Bengal Sappers or Bengal Engineers) is a military engineering regiment in the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The unit was originally part of the Bengal Army of the East India Company's Bengal Presidency, and subsequently part of the British Indian Army during the British Raj. The Bengal Sappers are stationed at Roorkee Cantonment in Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
The Bengal Sappers are one of the few remaining regiments of the erstwhile Bengal Presidency Army and survived the
Over the years the Bengal Sappers have won many
Besides service on the battlefield, the Bengal Engineers also rendered valuable peacetime contributions. The military engineer Lt. James Agg designed
History
The
The Bengal Sappers and Miners was originally the Corps of Bengal Pioneers, which was raised from two pioneer companies in 1803, part of
In 1847 the Bengal Sappers and Miners was renamed Bengal Sappers and Pioneers, and in 1851 it became the Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners. On 7 November 1853, the regiment moved to
On the accession of
Battle honours
Colonial India
- First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
- First Anglo-Sikh War
- Second Anglo-Sikh War
- Punjab
- Delhi 1857, Lucknow,
- Afghanistan 1878–80
- Kabul 1879[18] Ahmad Khel,
- Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885–1887)
- Burma 1885–87
- Hunza–Nagar Campaign (1891)[19]
- Chitral Expedition (1895)
- Chitral[20]
- Tirah (1897–1898)
- Tirah
- China 1900
- France and Flanders 1914–15:
- Mesopotamia 1915–18:
- Aden
- Palestine 1918:
- Persia 1918
- North West Frontier India 1915 & 1916–17, Baluchistan 1918
- Afghanistan 1919.
- Malaya 1941–42
- North Africa 1940–43
- Italy 1943–45[21]
- Burma 1942–45
- Yenangyaung 1942, Ngakedaung Pass, Jail Hill, Meiktila.
Republic of India
- First Indo-Pakistani War
- Jammu and Kashmir 1947–48
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- Jammu and Kashmir 1965
- Punjab 1965
- Rajasthan 1965
- Third Indo-Pakistani War
- East Pakistan 1971
- Jammu and Kashmir 1971
- Sindh 1971.[16]
Victoria Cross recipients
Name | Event | Date of action | Place of action |
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Duncan Home |
Indian revolt |
14 September 1857 | Delhi, India |
James Innes | Indian revolt |
28 February 1858 | Sultanpore, India[22] |
Philip Salkeld | Indian revolt |
14 September 1857 | Delhi, India[23] |
John Smith | Indian revolt |
14 September 1857 | Delhi, India[24] |
Edward Thackeray |
Indian revolt |
16 September 1857 | Delhi, India |
William Trevor | Anglo-Bhutanese War |
30 April 1865 | Dewangiri, Deothang, Bhutan |
James Dundas | Anglo-Bhutanese War |
30 April 1865 | Dewangiri, Deothang, Bhutan |
Edward Leach | Second Afghan War |
17 March 1879 | Khyber Pass, Afghanistan[25] |
Fenton Aylmer | Hunza-Naga Campaign |
2 December 1891 | |
James Colvin | First Mohmand Campaign |
16 September 1897 | British India[27]
|
Thomas Watson | First Mohmand Campaign |
16 September 1897 | British India[28]
|
See also
Citations
- ^ "Gazette of India No 45" (PDF). 7 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Gazette of India No 45" (PDF). 7 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ The Tribune, 24 November 2008.
- ^ Govt. of India.
- ^ a b Corps of Engineers, Indian Army bharat-rakshak.com. Archived 25 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bengal Engineering Group Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine Haridwar Official website.
- Bengal Sappers.
- ^ "Churches in Kolkata". Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-967498-5, retrieved 30 June 2020
- ^ Corps of Engineers - History Indian Army Official website. Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Indian Sappers (1740-1947) Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 31 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Indian Army Service Records (up to 1947) Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 20 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ THE BENGAL SAPPERS National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee. Archived 13 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Institute Time Capsule IIT Roorkee.
- ^ "1st King George's Own Sappers and Miners - Officers & Non-Commissioned Officers and Men". Reubique.com. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ a b "King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners". Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2007.
- The Tribune, 29 October 2003.
- ^ "The Battle of Kabul 1879". Britishbattles.com. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ Nevill 1912, p. 136-137.
- ^ "Chitral 1895 - Fort Siege". Devonheritage.org. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ Cassino Memorial Archived 17 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lieutenant James John McLeod INNES VC Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 23 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lieutenant Philip SALKELD VC Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sergeant John SMITH VC Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Victoria Crosses held by the Royal Engineers Museum". victoriacross.org.uk/. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ "Captain Fenton John AYLMER VC". Royal Engineers Museum. 2010. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ Lieutenant James Morris Colquhoun COLVIN VC Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 23 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lieutenant Thomas Colclough WATSON VC Royal Engineers Museum. Archived 23 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
Short Histories:
- The Indian Sappers and Miners,By Lieut.-Colonel E.W.C. Sandes D.S.O., M.C., R.E. (Ret.), Published by The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1948. Extracts
- K.S. Calendar of battles, honours and awards : King George V's Own Bengal Sappers & Miners from 1803 to 1939, by Rhamat Ullan Khan, ca. 1944.
- History and digest of service of the 1st King George's Own Sappers & Miners. Roorkee : 1st King's Own Press, (ca. 1911)
- Regimental history of the King George's Own Bengal Sappers & Miners. Roorkee : KGO Sappers & Miners Press, 1937.
- Corps reunion and the unveiling of the war memorial. (Roorkee : King George V's own Bengal sappers and miners group, R.I.E),1927.
- History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers, Whitworth Porter. Published by Longmans, Green, 1952.
- The Bengal Sappers 1803–2003, by General Sir George Cooper GCB MC and Major David Alexander. ISBN 0-903530-24-4.
- The Military Engineer in India, by Lt. Col. E.W.C Sandes. Reprint 2001, Original 1933.ISBN 9781843420422.
First World War:
- Cunningham, A.H., A Short history of the Corps of King George's Own Bengal Sappers & Miners during the War, 1914-1918. (1930)
Second World War:
- Pearson, G., Brief history of the K.G.V's own Bengal Sappers and Miners Group, R.I.E., August 1939-July 1946. Roorkee : Pearson, 1947.
- Nevill, Hugh Lewis (1912). Campaigns on the North-west Frontier. J. Murray. ISBN 9780342594405.