Madras Engineer Group
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Madras Engineer Group (MEG), 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.
Madras Engineer Group
Madras Sappers at the gates of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, March 1945.
Madras Sappers & Miners at the Qaisar Bagh complex in Lucknow, c 1857
Madras Sappers review order by Richard Simkin, 1896
Madras Army
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The Madras Army was the army of the Presidency of Madras, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
Left to right, the Madras Horse Artillery, the Madras Light Cavalry, the Madras Rifle Corps, the Madras Pioneers, the Madras Native Infantry, and the Madras Foot Artillery, c. 1830
A painting showing a sowar (cavalry equivalent of sepoy), 6th Madras Light Cavalry c. 1845.
The 1st Madras Pioneers, c. 1890
The Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, 1896