Rare Images Of Sikh Soldiers Who Fought In World War I

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

One soldier in every six in the British Army was Indian, with Sikhs comprising one-fifth of the Indian contingent when the war began.

As we approach the centenary of the beginning of World War I, on July 28, revisionist histories are beginning to examine the role of non-white and non-European people in the war effort. From the Indian sub-continent, around 1.5 million soldiers volunteered to fight in places from Belgium to West Asia. Many of them were Sikhs.

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Waheguru

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My great grandfather fought in WW1 and what I recollect from my father was the Indian troops were pushed over the trenches before the British troops as cannon fodder.

My great grandfather also won medals but he threw them in the river.

A futile war from a war which was little more than a European Mahabharat.