Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Indian Soldiers Sikhs Gorkhas In World War in France

0- Sikhs & French villagers [Le Sart, France].
1-Baggage etc of a cavalry brigade on the march
4-Trick riding by Indian cavalry
[Officers' dugouts. The home of a C.O. of Indian Infantry, Fauquissart, France]
Arrival of mail at Brigade Post Office [Linghem, France
Baggage etc of a Cavalry Brigade on the march [near Fenges, France]1

Card parties of wounded Indians at Brighton.
Convalescent Indians sunning themselves, and others out for their march through the town and along the bracing sea front with the Pavilion Hospital in the background
Group of all ranks 2 2 Gurkhas, 9th Gurkhas and 6th Jats who have received honours or been mentioned in dispatches in this war [St Floris, France].
Gurkhas preparing an cooking food [St Floris, France]
Highlanders and Dogras in a trench with dugouts [Fauquissart, France].
Indian Corps Headquarters Post Office. The officer seen in the foreground [Lieut Bullard] was killed the next morning by a shell, after the photograph was taken [Merville, France]

Indian Corps Signal Section putting up a telegraph line [Merville, France].2
Indian Corps Signal Section putting up a telegraph line [Merville, France].2
Indian infantry [58th Rifles] in the trenches [Fauquissart, France]
Indian infantry band [40th Pathans] playing on a French farm [St Floris, France]
Indian infantry in the trenches, prepared against a gas attack [Fauquissart, France]
Indian wounded out for a motor ride, Mount Dore Hospital, Bournemouth
Officers of the 4th Cavalry [Neuf Berguin, France]
Sikhs singing religious chants in a French barn [Le Sart].
The General [Sir John Willcocks] talking to Indian officers at an inspection parade [Merville, France].
The Sikh kitchen. Turning chappaties on the gas stoves [Brighton]
Typical Garhwal riflemen [Estaire La Bassée Road, France].

 Wounded native officers at Kitchener Hospital, Brighton.

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