107th Pioneers

April 2026 107th Pioneers Indian pioneers.png 300px A member of the regiment (far right) depicted with other British Indian Army pioneers in 1911. 1788–1922 British India (to 1922)India 1922 Army Infantry Madras Army (to 1895)Madras Command Red; faced white. Uniform Third Anglo-Mysore WarFourth Anglo-Mysore WarBeni Boo AliSecond Burmese WarWorld War I 1st Battalion 2nd Bombay Pioneers (1933) The 107th Pioneers were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. Their origin can be traced back to 1788, when they were raised as the 4th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys. The regiments first action was in the Third Anglo-Mysore War. They also took part in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War being at the two major battles the Battle of Seedaseer and the Battle of Seringapatam. Their next action was at Beni Boo Ali against pirates in Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf region led the East India Company to carry out a punitive expedition in 1819 to Ras al Khaimah which destroyed the pirate base and removed the threat from the Persian Gulf. They were also part of the forces involved in the annexation of Burma in the Second Burmese War. In 1903 they were part of the British force in the Dervish War.The Somaliland expedition 22 December 1902 6 36957 After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi-battalion regiments.Sumner p. 15 In 1922, the 107th Pioneers became the 1st Battalion 2nd Bombay Pioneers, which was disbanded for reasons of economy in 1933.Boris Mollo, page163 "The Indian Army", Blandford Press 1981, 0 7137 1074 8 Genealogy 4th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys - 1788. 1st Battalion, 4th Bombay Native Infantry - 1796. 7th Bombay Native Infantry - 1824. 7th Bombay Infantry - 1885. 7th Bombay Infantry (Pioneers) - 1900. 107th Pioneers - 1903. 1st Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers - 1922 until disbandment (1933). References Bibliography Barthorp Michael Burn Jeffrey 1979 Indian infantry regiments 1860-1914 Osprey Publishing 0-85045-307-0 Rinaldi Richard A 2008 Order of Battle British Army 1914 Ravi Rikhye 978-0-9776072-8-0 Sharma Gautam 1990 Valour and sacrifice: famous regiments of the Indian Army Allied Publishers 81-7023-140-X Sumner Ian The Indian Army 1914-1947 2001 Osprey Publishing 1-84176-196-6 Moberly Frederick James History of the Great War Based on Official Documents The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914–1918 I 1927 1923 HMSO London 772784341 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666 Category:British Indian Army infantry regiments Category:Military history of the Madras Presidency Category:Military units and formations established in 1788 Category:1788 establishments in British India Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922