Learn why the commander-in-chief had this to say of the 14th Sikhs at Gallipoli, at our free Sunday Symposium on 7 September.
In the highest sense of the word extreme gallantry has been shown by this fine Battalion.... The ends of the enemy's trenches into leading into the ravine were found to be blocked with the bodies of Sikhs and of the enemy who died fighting at close quarters; and the glacis slope is thickly dotted with the bodies of these fine soldiers all lying on their faces as they fell in their steady advance on the enemy.
The history of the Sikhs affords many instances of their value as soldiers, but it may he safely asserted that nothing finer than the grim valour and steady discipline displayed by them on the 4th June has ever been done by soldiers of the Khalsa.
Their devotion to duty and their splendid loyalty to, their orders and to their leaders make a record their nation should look back upon with pride for many generations.
Picture credit: 21st Indian Battery Guard. Photograph taken in 1915 by Sergeant Charles Alexander Masters while on active service with the Australian Imperial Force in Gallipoli from Australian Sikh Heritage