From the Punjab to the Western Front
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Indian Army in the First World War
The indian army was a very significant presence in those early months of battle. In france, the first battle of ipesise, the battle of ne chapel victoria cross, was won ther by an jabi soldier cutadad. They were moved eastwards as we started to see conscripts coming from united kingdom and elsewhere. Gallipoli, there was large numbers of indians at gallipoli with the anzac and with the british. But then, as you say, mesopotamia, and that whole campaign through what is now modern dayarak is really where most indians saw service. And so would ye say that most of the indian troops would
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