British India

1st Madras Pioneers

Presidency of Madras
 
1758: 1st Battalion of Coast Sepoys
1769: 1st Carnatic Battalion
1770:
4th Carnatic Battalion
1784: 1st Madras Battalion
4th Madras Battalion
1786:

28th Madras Battalion
1796: 1st Battalion,
1st Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry

1st Battalion,
4th Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry

1st Battalion,
11st Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry

1806: disbanded




1807: 1st Battalion,
24th Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry







1818: 1st Battalion,
1st Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry







1824: 1st Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry

4th Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry

21st Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry

1883: 1st Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry
(Pioneers)

4th Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry
(Pioneers)




1885: 1st Regiment of
Madras Infantry
(Pioneers)

4th Regiment of
Madras Infantry
(Pioneers)

21st Regiment of
Madras Infantry


1891:





21st Regiment of
Madras Infantry
(Pioneers)

1901: 1st Madras Infantry
(Pioneers)

4th Madras Infantry
(Pioneers)

21st Madras Infantry
(Pioneers)

Renumbering into the Indian Army
1903: 61st Pioneers 64th Pioneers 81st Pioneers
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1906: 61st Prince of Wales’s Own
Pioneers


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1910: 61st King George’s Own
Pioneers


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1917:

2nd Bn raised
1918: 2nd Bn raised


1921: 2nd Bn disbanded

2nd Bn disbanded
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1922: 1st (King George’s Own) Bn, 2nd Bn, 10th (Training) Bn,
1st Madras Pioneers
1st Madras Pioneers
1929: The Corps of Madras Pioneers
Madras Pioneers
1933: disbanded