Monday, December 28, 2020

The Indians in British Army during world war

0-Sikhs singing religious chants in a French barn
1- Sikhs singing religious chants outside their billets
2- Group of British & Indian officers, 15th Sikhs
3- Gurkhas wrestling on the regimental transport mules
4- Electrical and Galvanic treatment room at the Kitchener Hospital, Brighton
5- Men of Garhwal Brigade Signal section, under Captain Pope, 58th Rifles, putting up a telephone cable, on a house in a French village
6- Signal Section putting up telephone cable on a house in a French village
7- Group of N.C.O.s of a Gurkhas Battalion in a French farmhouse
8- The Dowsing Institute Radio Electrical Treatment
9- Indian officers of a Gurkhas Battalion outside their billets
10- First line transport of a Gurkha Battalion in France .
A Bomb Gun Section. An easy time in the trenches
A football match. Gurkhas versus a Signal Company
British & Indian officers 9th Gurkhas at their headquarters in France
British & Indian officers of  Gurkhas with Brig. Gen. Norie
Captured trench under bombardment
Dhol & Sarnai band playing the Marseillaise to a French audience on a farm
Group of all ranks, Gurkhas, 9th Gurkhas & 6th Jats who have received honours or been mentioned in despatches in this war
Gurkhas preparing & cooking food 1
Gurkhas preparing & cooking food 1
Gurkhas preparing & cooking food 1
Gurkhas preparing & cooking food 1
Gurkhas wrestling on the regimental transport mules  Le Sart, France

Indian infantry band [40th Pathans] playing on a French farm
Operation Room, Kitchener Hospital [Brighton], searching for a bullet in a wounded Indian sepoy.
Regimenal Sgt. Major Cox of the Leicesters who came with his battalion from India

Sikhs & French villagers Le Sart, France
Sikhs singing religious chants outside their billets Le Sart, France

 The Sikh kitchen. Turning chappaties on the gas stoves

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