Lt. John Smyth was awarded the Victoria Cross with the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs.
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Netley’s military hospital was built to service an empire’s army after the Crimean war. It stood for a century and saw two world wars before being demolished in 1966.
A new trailer for the 'Empire, Faith & War: The Sikhs and World War One' exhibition, which launches a national effort to build the biggest database on the Sikh experience during the war.
This article in the Indian Express features some wonderful stories from descendents of Sikh soldiers who fought in WW1.
A crumpled, half-torn paper certifies that Manna Singh, a sepoy in the first battalion of the 2nd Punjab Regiment, British Indian army, has been discharged of his services and been paid all his arrears.
The exhibition appeared in The Big Issue magazine, which is read by over half a million Londoners every week.
As part of the exhibition we explored the issue of the home front and the families left behind.
In the battlefield of Gallipoli, a Sikh soldier was reported as having seen a vision of Guru Gobind Singh.
Thank you to an anonymous UK donor who sent us a small cache of original photographs depicting Sikh soldiers in the Middlesex area over a century ago.
It's incorrect to see the Sikh role in World War One as one-dimensional.