'Forever India' Film

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  1. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Feel free to move to news but I thought it would be best appreciated and more easily found in this section.

    As Britain and the Commonwealth prepare to mark Remembrance Day, the Commission has produced a DVD about the often-overlooked contribution made by servicemen and women from undivided India during the First World War, which is being sent to every school in the UK.


    Click the link below to see the film:

    :: CWGC ::=
     
  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Love the bit with Manta Singh's grandson with the grandson of officer he saved, Capt Henderson.
    Manta Singh.
    CWGC :: Casualty Details

    Name:MANTA SINGH
    Nationality:Indian
    Rank:Subadar
    Regiment/Service:15th Ludhiana Sikhs
    Date of Death:20/03/1915
    Additional information:Son of Khem Singh, of Salempur, Masandan, Jullundur, Punjab.
    Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
    Cemetery:PATCHAM DOWN INDIAN FORCES CREMATION MEMORIAL
     
  3. falaisegap

    falaisegap Junior Member

    Feel free to move to news but I thought it would be best appreciated and more easily found in this section.



    Click the link below to see the film:

    :: CWGC ::=

    For a somewhat different view of India and Great Britain at war, Madhusree Mukerjee's book, Churchill's Secret War, discusses the relationship between the two countries during the Second World War. Not at all what Mr. Churchill had in mind.
     
  4. shahbaaz

    shahbaaz Member

    A really good effort. The CWGC's doing a really good job.
     

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