The National Memorial Arboretum
Exploring some of the memorials with South Asian connections at the year-round centre for Remembrance.
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Author: Royal British Legion
Pilgrimage for Noor
An aviation enthusiast’s special mission to honour a Second World War agent in occupied France.
Indian Army Memorial Room, Sandhurst
The Indian Army Memorial Room stands as a tribute to the rich history and enduring spirit of the Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army.
The Khanda Poppy Tribute
The story behind the tribute to commemorate the service of Sikh members of the Armed Forces.
Chattri Memorial
The Chattri Memorial honours the 53 men (37 Hindu and 16 Sikh) of the Indian Army who died of their wounds and illnesses obtained whilst serving on the Western Front from 1914 to 1915.
Ghulam Hussain
A story of an ordinary man who served in extraordinary conditions in the Far East in the Second World War – as recalled by his son Mashuq Hussain OBE.
The Sepoy- Khudadad Khan VC
Born in 1888 in the Punjab village of Dab, Khan was a Muslim Rajput. Khan’s parents died while he was a teenager, and he became a sepoy to support his two sisters. At the outbreak of the First World War his regiment, the 129th Baluchis, was sent to France. In October 1914, Khan, a machine […]
Hardit Singh Malik
Sardar Hardit Singh Malik was born on the 23rd November 1894 in Rawalpindi in West Punjab. Sent to England aged 14, he attended Eastbourne College, before studying history at Oxford, and playing cricket for Sussex. After the First World War broke out, Hardit applied to join the British Army as a commissioned officer, but racist […]
Gabar Sing Negi VC
Born in Chambra, Uttarakhand in 1895, Gabar Sing Negi was just twenty years of age when, along with his comrades in 2nd Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles, he sailed for Europe in the autumn of 1914. Like many soldiers making up the Indian Corps in the Great War, life on the Western Front came as a […]
Manta Singh: A General Connection
Manta Singh joined the Indian Army from school in 1907. Promoted to Subedar, the equivalent of captain, he served in the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs alongside an English officer, Lieutenant George Henderson. In August 1914 Singh and his friend Henderson, like thousands of others, were sent to France. On March 10th 1915, they joined the first […]
