This article in the Indian Express features some wonderful stories from descendents of Sikh soldiers who fought in WW1.
Harbans Singh's ancestor was one of the very few survivors of the 14th Sikhs during the disaster that was the Gallipoli campaign.
For the frail 89-year-old, the First World War does not signify conflict, but friendship, a bond born of war that lived long after the last troops returned home.
It began on 4 June 1915, the first day of the Third Battle of Krithia, fought on the Gallipoli peninsula (present-day northern Turkey) between British and French forces allied against and military might of the Ottoman Empire.
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