'One Sikh stood upon the parapet with great gallantry and threw three bombs beautifully into the middle of the Germans. That was enough for the Boches, and they came out holding up their hands...'
These were the words of Lt. Keith Stewart of the famous Black Watch. Stewart, the younger son of the 11th Earl of Galloway, was writing about the storming of the village of Neuve Chapelle, one of the major engagements for the Indian Army in the Western Front during the First World War.
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Picture: 'For the glory of the Raj: Indian troops charging the German trenches at Neuve Chapelle, March, 1915'. An engraving after a painting by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr. (Courtesy of Nanaki and Sahib Collected Works)