page_title: Madras Engineer Group
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Madras Engineer Group / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: English: Madras Sappers &amp; Miners, Lucknow, Felice Beato, albumen print, 1857-58, 164 x 200 mm A tinted photograph of a group of four armed soldiers in uniform in front of the Jal Pari Gateway in the Qaisar Bagh complex. ‘C’ Company of Madras Sappers &amp; Miners joined Sir Colin Campbell in the second relief of Lucknow in November 1857.
context_page_description: Madras Engineer Group, informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army of the British Raj. This regiment has its HQ in Bengaluru. The Madras Sappers are the oldest of the three groups of the Corps of Engineers.
  The Madras Sappers were the only regiment of the Madras Presidency Army to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928. The thambis, as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark Shakos have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years.
  The Bangalore torpedo, a mine clearing explosive device, was invented in the Centre at Bengaluru in the early years of the Twentieth Century.
context_section_description: 1780 – Created Madras Pioneers from two company of Pioneers (On 30 September 1780 at Madras Patnam)
  1831 – Renamed Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners
  1834 – Relocated HQ to Bengaluru, where it remains today
  1876 – Receive prefix Queens's Own
  1903 – 2nd Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, Renamed as part of the Kitchener Reforms
  1911 – Renamed 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
caption: Madras Sappers & Miners at the Qaisar Bagh complex in Lucknow, c 1857
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