In the UK, 40,000 red khadi poppies have been distributed alongside the traditional British Legion paper poppy. Khadi is the spun cotton cloth identified with Mahatma Gandhi, who not only led India’s independence movement, but in 1914 encouraged Indians in Britain to volunteer for service...…
Britain sent nine million men, including troops from around the British Empire, chiefly India. ..…
August announcement Parliament, declaring that Britain's for India was increasing association of Indians every branch of the administration and the development of self-governing institutions with view to the realisation of India as integral part of British Empire.. ..…
Forged in the aftermath of the Sepoy Uprising of 1857, it was enormously influential and shaped the formation of India’s armed forces. . The total number of men enlisted from Punjab, including both the British districts and the Indian states, during the war years was 470,000, including..…
Persia was supposedly neutral during the First World War but its strategic location between Russia, the Ottoman Empire (...) and Britain's fiercely guarded colonial crown jewel, India, - and the territory's vast oil reserves - meant Persia, according to one British diplomat, 'had been..…
Paris commemorations were preceded by ceremonies New Zealand, Australia, India, Hong Kong and Myanmar, former British colonies that lost tens of thousands of people sent to fight in the war.. ..…
India: $601,279,000 . South Africa: $300,000,000 . British Colonies: $125,000,000 . ..…
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