239th Corps of Engineers Day marked at memorial

Pune: The Southern Command of Indian Army on Monday organised a wreath laying ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ghorpadi to mark the 239th Corps of Engineers Day.

Lieutenant General D S Ahuja, Chief of Staff of the Southern Command, laid a commemorative wreath at the memorial. Lieutenant General B T Pandit (retd) laid a wreath on behalf of the veterans.

“The Corps of Engineers is one of the oldest arms of the Indian Army. Its origin dates to 1780 when two regular pioneer companies of the Madras Sappers were raised. Subsequently, the Group of Madras, Bengal and Bombay Sappers were formed and later merged on November 18, 1932, to from the Corps of Engineers in its present form,” a defence release stated. tnn


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