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{{About|MEG - Madras Engineer Group||MEG (disambiguation)}}
{{Short description|Indian Army, Corps of Engineers regiment}}
{{more footnotes|date=March 2013}}
{{more footnotes|date=March 2013}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
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{{Infobox military unit
{{Infobox military unit
| unit_name        = Madras Engineer Group
| unit_name        = Madras Engineer Group
| image            = File:Stamp of India - 1980 - Colnect 361609 - Bicentenary Madras Sappers.jpeg
| image            = Stamp of India - 1980 - Colnect 361609 - Bicentenary Madras Sappers.jpeg
| image_size        = 260px
| image_size        = 200px
| caption          =  
| caption          =  
| dates            = 1780–present
| dates            = 1780–present
| country          = {{flag|India}}
| country          = {{flag|British India}}
<br>{{flag|India}}
| allegiance        =  
| allegiance        =  
| branch            = {{army|India}}
| branch            = {{army|British India}}
<br>{{army|India}}
| type              = [[Combat Engineers]]
| type              = [[Combat Engineers]]
| role              = Combat support
| role              = Combat support
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| disbanded        =  
| disbanded        =  
<!-- Commanders -->
<!-- Commanders -->
| commander1        = Lt Gen PP Malhotra, VSM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2020/223002.pdf|title=Gazette of India No 45|date=2020-11-07|access-date=2020-11-24}}</ref>
| commander1        = Lt Gen KC Panchanathan, AVSM
| commander1_label  = Colonel Comdt of Madras Sappers  
| commander1_label  = Colonel Comdt of Madras Sappers  
| commander2        =  
| commander2        =  
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| identification_symbol_label =  
| identification_symbol_label =  
}}
}}
[[File:The War in the Far East- the Burma Campaign 1941-1945 IND4549.jpg|thumb|right|395x395px|Madras Sappers at the gates of [[Fort Dufferin, Burma|Fort Dufferin]], [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]], March 1945.]]
[[File:The War in the Far East- the Burma Campaign 1941-1945 IND4549.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Madras Sappers at the gates of [[Fort Dufferin, Burma|Fort Dufferin]], [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]], March 1945.]]


'''Madras Engineer Group''' (MEG), informally known as the '''Madras Sappers''', is an engineer group of the [[Indian Army Corps of Engineers|Corps of Engineers]] of the [[Indian Army]]. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile [[Madras Army|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''' ('''MEG'''), informally known as the '''Madras Sappers''', is an engineer group of the [[Indian Army Corps of Engineers|Corps of Engineers]] of the [[Indian Army]]. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile [[Madras Army|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 Army|Madras Presidency Army]] to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928.<ref name="Mason">{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Mason|pages=345 & 349|title=A Matter of Honour|year=1986|isbn=0-333-41837-9}}</ref> The ''thambis'', as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark [[Shako]]s have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years.
The Madras Sappers were the only regiment of the [[Madras Army|Madras Presidency Army]] to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928.<ref name="Mason">{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Mason|pages=345 & 349|title=A Matter of Honour|year=1986|isbn=0-333-41837-9}}</ref> The ''thambis'', as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark [[Shako]]s have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years.
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===Pre-World War I===
===Pre-World War I===


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*[[Second Anglo-Mysore War|Carnatic (1781–82)]]
*[[Second Anglo-Mysore War|Carnatic (1781–82)]]
*[[Sholinghur (Battle honour)|Sholinghur (1781–82)]]
*[[Sholinghur (Battle honour)|Sholinghur (1781–82)]]
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*[[Battle of Mahidpur|Mehidpur (1819)]]
*[[Battle of Mahidpur|Mehidpur (1819)]]
*[[Inwa|Ava (1825)]]
*[[Inwa|Ava (1825)]]
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*[[First Anglo-Chinese War|China (1840)]]
*[[First Anglo-Chinese War|China (1840)]]
*[[Battle of Miani|Meanee (1843)]]
*[[Battle of Miani|Meanee (1843)]]
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*[[Second Opium War|Pekin (1860)]]
*[[Second Opium War|Pekin (1860)]]
*[[Abyssinia (battle honour)|Abyssinia (1868)]]
*[[Abyssinia (battle honour)|Abyssinia (1868)]]
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*[[Second Anglo-Afghan War|Afghanistan (1878–80)]]
*[[Second Anglo-Afghan War|Afghanistan (1878–80)]]
*[[1882 Anglo-Egyptian War|Egypt (1882)]]
*[[1882 Anglo-Egyptian War|Egypt (1882)]]
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*[[Federally Administered Tribal Areas#"Hit and Run" Policy and war with tribes (1897-98)|Punjab Frontier (1897–98)]]
*[[Federally Administered Tribal Areas#"Hit and Run" Policy and war with tribes (1897-98)|Punjab Frontier (1897–98)]]
*[[Boxer Rebellion|Boxer Rebellion (1900)]]
*[[Boxer Rebellion|Boxer Rebellion (1900)]]
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===World War I===
===World War I===
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*[[Western Front (World War I)|France & Flanders (1914–15)]]
*[[Western Front (World War I)|France & Flanders (1914–15)]]
*[[First Suez Offensive|Suez Canal (1915–17)]]
*[[First Suez Offensive|Suez Canal (1915–17)]]
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*[[Battle of Megiddo (1918)|Sharon (1918)]]
*[[Battle of Megiddo (1918)|Sharon (1918)]]
*[[Sinai and Palestine Campaign|Palestine (1918)]]
*[[Sinai and Palestine Campaign|Palestine (1918)]]
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*[[Fall of Baghdad (1917)|Baghdad (1915–18)]]
*[[Fall of Baghdad (1917)|Baghdad (1915–18)]]
*[[Mesopotamian Campaign|Mesopotamia (1915–18)]]
*[[Mesopotamian Campaign|Mesopotamia (1915–18)]]
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*N.W. Frontier (1914–15)
*N.W. Frontier (1914–15)
*[[East African Campaign (World War I)|East Africa (1918)]]
*[[East African Campaign (World War I)|East Africa (1918)]]
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===World War II===
===World War II===
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*[[Battle of Mersa Matruh|Mersa Matruh (1940–43)]]
*[[Battle of Mersa Matruh|Mersa Matruh (1940–43)]]
*[[Battle of Ngakyedauk|Ngakyedauk Pass (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Ngakyedauk|Ngakyedauk Pass (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Imphal|Bishenpur (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Imphal|Bishenpur (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay|Meiktila (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay|Meiktila (1942–45)]]
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*[[Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations|Tamu Road (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations|Tamu Road (1942–45)]]
*[[Battle of Monte Cassino|Cassino I (1943–45)]]
*[[Battle of Monte Cassino|Cassino I (1943–45)]]
*[[East African Campaign (World War II)|Abyssinia (1940–41)]]
*[[East African Campaign (World War II)|Abyssinia (1940–41)]]
*[[North African Campaign|North Africa (1940–43)]]
*[[North African Campaign|North Africa (1940–43)]]
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*[[Anglo-Iraqi War|Iraq (1941)]]
*[[Anglo-Iraqi War|Iraq (1941)]]
*[[Syria-Lebanon Campaign order of battle|Syria (1941)]]
*[[Syria-Lebanon Campaign order of battle|Syria (1941)]]
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*[[Burma Campaign|Burma (1942–45)]]
*[[Burma Campaign|Burma (1942–45)]]
*[[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italy (1943–45)]]
*[[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italy (1943–45)]]
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===Post Independence===
===Post Independence===
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*[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947|Zoji La (1948)]]
*[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947|Zoji La (1948)]]
*[[Battle of Basantar|Basantar River (1971)]]
*[[Battle of Basantar|Basantar River (1971)]]
*[[Jammu & Kashmir (1947-48)]]
*[[Jammu & Kashmir (1947-48)]]
*[[Jammu & Kashmir (1965)]]
*[[Jammu & Kashmir (1965)]]
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*[[Punjab (1965)]]
*[[Punjab (1965)]]
*[[Jammu & Kashmir (1971)]]
*[[Jammu & Kashmir (1971)]]
*[[Punjab (1971)]]
*[[Punjab (1971)]]
*[[East Pakistan (1971)]]
*[[East Pakistan (1971)]]
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==Symbols==
==Symbols==
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20090725060217/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm
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