Forgotten Punjabi soldiers of British Indian Army finally get WWI recognition after a century: Report
- (Representative Photo)More than a century after the First World War, nearly 10,000 forgotten soldiers of the British Indian Army, many of them Punjabis, have finally been officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice.
- According to the BBC, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has added the names of 9,909 previously omitted British Indian Army servicemen to its casualty database in the biggest revision of its records in more than 80 years.
- The update follows years of research by volunteers who uncovered their names in rare village registers pre
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- (Representative Photo)More than a century after the First World War, nearly 10,000 forgotten soldiers of the British Indian Army, many of them Punjabis, have finally been officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice.
- According to the BBC, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has added the names of 9,909 previously omitted British Indian Army servicemen to its casualty database in the biggest revision of its records in more than 80 years.
- The update follows years of research by volunteers who uncovered their names in rare village registers pre
Sources: Times of India