Browsing Tag: Sikh Soldiers

The exhibit will be open for 11 months. It marks the launch of a three-year project to reveal the untold story of how one of the world’s smallest communities played a disproportionately major role in the war.

The story of the British Indian army on the Western Front starts on 6th August 1914. On that day, the War Council asks the Indian government to send two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade to Egypt. The divisions chosen were the Lahore and the Meerut Divisions, later followed by the Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade which together formed the Indian Army Corps.

"Some people might think that Napoleon was a great General. Some might name Marshall Hendenburgh, Lord Kitchener, General Karobzey or Duke of Wellington etc. But let me tell you that in the North of India a General...

"Indians in the Trenches" depicts the real life stories of those from the subcontinent who left their villages in 1914 to fight in a faraway land for the first time. The film uses the original letters sent from the trenches of France and Flanders to delve into what the Indian soldiers felt and experienced at different key points during the four-year war.

Maghar Singh was sent to the frontline in France aged just 15, after signing up to fight in the British Indian Army. In 2002, his son joined other Sikhs in Coventry to help set up a memorial on a roundabout on the A444. While praising the memorial, Maghar's grandson Jagdeesh Singh said the location underplayed the Sikh role.

[VIDEO] "It is my humble attempt to present this page in history to the future generation so that they may venerate the sacrifices made by their forefathers." In the video the author is being thanked by a Dutchman who was liberated by Sikhs after WWII.

'To show their contempt for death, some Sikhs had refused to hide in the trenches'. The day after, we heard that during the night one of the Sikh regiment had to recapture the trench, which the Germans had taken by surprise...

The role of Sikhs in the Great War is a largely unknown but fascinating part of the story of the Allied War effort is the participation of the Sikh soldiers in the Dominium forces of Australia.

Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan graduated on Monday at Fort Sam Houston after the Army made an exemption to a uniform policy that has effectively prevented Sikhs from enlisting since 1984.