Sikh Remembrance Day Service

Discussion in 'British Indian Army' started by Owen, Nov 11, 2010.

  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Chatting to one of my Managers today about that program on the other night about Sikhs in the two World Wars.
    BBC iPlayer - Remembrance: The Sikh Story
    He hadn't watched it yet but said he would soon.
    He also told me his daughter is now old enough to understand Remembrance & told her always to wear her Poppy with pride to remember her Great-Grandad & his comrades who proudly served, fought & died in the Indian Army in WW2.

    I've just found this webpage with some excellent photos of Sikh Remembrance, some good ones in there from Canada too.


    Sikh Remembrance Service

    Great photo album .
    2010 Sikh Remembrance Service - a set on Flickr
     
  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Cheers Own - Loved these two pics.

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  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    A couple of Burma Stars in that bottom pic.


    I've been nagging him for ages now to show me a photo of his Grandad.
    He promises on his next visit to India he'll ask his Gran if he can look after the photos & medals.

    He also told me about a racist chap in a pub telling him to bugger off back to India.
    Mick told him of his families service in the Indian Army & the other chap soon shut up.
     
  4. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Quite amazing as it's an area I've never really looked into. In fact, it wan't until I joined this forum that I even knew Sikhs fought on our side during the war. Rather ashamed really.

    Definately worth remembering.

    Cheers Owen.
     
  5. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Quite amazing as it's an area I've never really looked into. In fact, it wan't until I joined this forum that I even knew Sikhs fought on our side during the war. Rather ashamed really.

    Definately worth remembering.

    Cheers Owen.

    Muslims and Hindhu's too (Pakistan and Bangladesh was part of India during WW2) Marcus amongst many other faiths.
     
  6. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Aye mate. I guess it's just my ignorance to the fact that when I first started really getting into WW2, it was because of all that Band of Brothers Hype and although I guess my History teacher probably would of mentioned these other brave faiths doing their part, I never really listened much.

    Shame really as I could have known so much more by now. But this weekend is as a good a time as ever to start to remember.

    cheers.
     
  7. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Never too late mate.. I only started getting interested in Dunkirk two years ago and think I've now got an obsession. :lol:
     
  8. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Brilliant photos by the way.
     
  9. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    It must also be remembered the Indian Army in WW2 was the largest VOLUNTEER army ever at a peak strength of approx 2.5 million.
     
  10. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

  11. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TU1dQK-j-4[/YOUTUBE]
     
  12. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  13. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    No mention of them in France during 1940 though, they were there. I have the units war diaries ;)

    See 8min 30 secs in that vid I posted.
    Proves that fat tosser Bernard Manning wrong.
     
  14. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Great little bit of footage there...I do love watching B/W dunkirk footage.
     
  15. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    See 8min 30 secs in that vid I posted.
    Proves that fat tosser Bernard Manning wrong.

    :lol:

    So is India still sour from the war?

    Quote from that video, "It wasn't just the Bristish who forgot them, the fact so many Indians volunteered to fight for the British empire became an embarrassment after independance. The whole subject is still sensitive".

    And shame on Mr Churchill for the way he regarded them.
     
  16. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Marcus
    If you want to really learn what the Indian Army got up to then you should "goggle" for "The Tiger Trumphs'" and that was just three Divisions that we had in the Desert - Ethiopia - Syria - Tunisia - and Italy and finishing up in Greece - the actions of the 4th Indian Div at Cassino will break your heart - and to see them come down from there is unforgettable.....while US gen. Mark Clark had no or very little time for the British Army he condescended to glorify the Corps of the 4th - 8th and 10th Indian Divisions in Italy- he couldn't do otherwise as they were superb and my Brigade of 21st Tanks supported 8th Indian after the Canadians left for Belgium in early '45
    Google it now ..
    Cheers
    Cheers
     
  17. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Tom, I'm on it mate.
     
  18. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  19. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    lol, just had to add a 'i' in trumphs as it wasn't bringing anything up. :p
     
  20. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Owen -
    Interesting photo of the Canadian Serviceman saluting alongside a civilian also saluting - the civilian is obviously of ww2 vintage and the serviceman is of the modern era after the Diefenbaker Government - some say - destroyed the Canadian forces by amalgamating them all as one - and turning them into quasi Americans hence the difference in the British and American salutes...
    Cheers
     

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