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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. http://scroll.in/article/671238/Rare-images-of-Sikh-soldiers-who-fought-in-World-War-I