After the war, in around 1920, he was posted to India with the 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners.
The thambis, as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark Shakos have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years.
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These engineer troops fought in numerous campaigns in India at Sholinghur, Seringapatam, Assaye (along with Major General Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and also in Egypt, China, Burma and other places abroad.
This image is from Jerdon's 1843-47 Illustrations of Indian Ornithology and was made by S. N. Ward of the Madras Civil Service, the foliage was added by Captain S. Best of the Madras Engineers.
Over the next twelve days, two companies of the Madras Pioneers provided sappes for eight batteries, dug several parallels and a trench up to the fort ditch.
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