With his permission I am forwarding some information/correction provided by a Chelsea Pensioner regarding the Madras Engineer Group. It was wrongly described as "Madras engineers" in a West Briton marriage announcement that appeared on the CORNISH-GEN List and which I forwarded to the INDIA List. Tom Thompson, St Agnes. ---0--- May I take the liberty of a very small correction, supplemented by some additional information: Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army_Corps_of_Engineers> of the Indian Army<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army>. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Army> of the British Raj <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj>. This regiment has its HQ in Bengaluru<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Army> to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Engineer_Group#cite_note-Mason-1> The thambis, as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark Shakos<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shako> have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years ---0---