From the Punjab to the Western Front
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Are the Gems in the Recruitment Registers?
After the war was over, there was this giant kind of administrative exercise by the government of the penjab to list the name of every man that went to war. Some registers are very detailed, and they've got regimental numbers and dates of recruitment in there as well as its this vast amount of data covering some 320 thousand of the half million men from the penjaba thatwent to war. A large number of british agiants are from benjab. You'll know lots of names, like sergeant jarvid and sulom sangera,. nita raney, anitaan the adil ray y.
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