from left to right, Roger Keyes, Vice Admiral Roebuck, Ian hamilton,
General Braithwaite, photo-mechnical print from Gallipoli Diaries, 1920.
[This first rather lengthy…
The battle cruiser HMAS Australia coaling in Sydney Harbour, 4 August, 1914, from Official History of Australia in the War 1814-1918, Vol 12
Towards the end…
Indian troops, France, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print, date unknown.
Starting on the 23 October 1914 the 1 Connaught…
Light Horse Soldiers of the Australian Mounted Division throwing snowballs on the Lebanon Hills during their journey from Homs to Tripoli, Charles bean, Volume 12, illustration 681
In early 1915…
Hardit Singh Malik was born on 22nd November 1894.
Hardit Singh Malik was born on 22nd November 1894 and was the first Indian to fly into combat with the Royal Flying Corps.
Hardit was educated…
Manta Singh was born in the Punjab, northern India, in 1907. After finishing school, he joined the 2nd Sikh Royal Infantry. By August 1914, when the German army invaded Belgium and France, Manta held…
During the First World War, over 160,000 Indian soldiers served in France.
The Lahore and Meerut infantry divisions of Indian Army were selected for service in Europe. In October…
Sepoy Khudadad Khan, VC, Hollebeke Sector, First Battle of Ypres, 30 October 1914, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Action_by_Sepoy_Khudadad_Khan_VC_Ypres.jpg.
During the 29 October action,…
The Lahore Division of Indian troops was one of the two divisions of Indian troops sent to France with their artillery and other arms. On 26 September 1914, a little over seven weeks after the…
Indian gunner of the 7th Meerut Division, wearing gas masks as protection against German gas shells 1915
Two divisions of Indian troops were sent to France with their artillery and other arms. By…