Bengal Sappers & Miners?

Discussion in 'British Indian Army' started by DavidW, Sep 18, 2011.

  1. IKE26

    IKE26 Active Member

    Hi 69 Fd Coy., like others indian units, disembarked in Taranto at the end of September '43. They travelled by ship in safe waters.
     
  2. JITTER PARTY

    JITTER PARTY Well-Known Member

    72 Indian Field Company served in the Arakan with 26 Indian Division Engineers.
     
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  3. thanks, I was more interested in the journey from India to Africa. It just seems a bit odd sending someone all that way, I wondered if it was part of a wider move to increase numbers before going across to Italy.
     
  4. Thanks, yes I saw them with 26 div but only after Apr 1944, it was before then. From the reading it looks like it could have been quite confusing at the time. Are there any other reference documents you are aware of. I did track down war diaries a few years ago but don’t think I could find them.
     
  5. JITTER PARTY

    JITTER PARTY Well-Known Member

    They were with 26 Indian Division 1942-1946, Arakan and Sumatra.
     
  6. Rgr, thanks
     
  7. gmyles

    gmyles Senior Member

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  8. DavidW

    DavidW Well-Known Member

    Thanks so much!
     
  9. Thanks for this, it gives a really good understanding of what conditions were like in the area at the time. Do you know if anything similar exists for the Bengal Sappers and Miners?
     
  10. dryan67

    dryan67 Senior Member

    The following two Corps histories also exist. I have viewed them at the New York Public Library in Manhattan.

    Lindsell, Robert Anthony. A Short History of Queen Victoria’s Own Madras Sappers and Miners during World War II 1939-45. Bangalore: Hosali Press, 1950. (NYPL)

    Pearson, G. Brief History of the K.G.V’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners from August 1939-July 1946. Roorkee: 1947. (NYPL)
     
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  11. davidbfpo

    davidbfpo Patron Patron

    From the Royal Engineer Historical Society website (an undated entry):
    Link: https://www.instre.org/rehs/

    Not much of this article includes WW2, it may be of interest: 'Some Notable Bengal Sappers' and also published in 2003 (reprinted in the NZ RE Journal): https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2003-April.pdf
     
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