From the Indian sub-continent, around 1.5 million soldiers volunteered to fight in places from Belgium to West Asia. Many of them were Sikhs. Empire, Faith & War: The Sikhs and World War One ...

As the world remembered the centenary of the Somme on July 1, a database of Sikh soldiers of the First World War went live Captain Dudley Morris Newitt who served with the 53rd Sikhs in ...

Sikh soldiers fought bravely ... be asked to explain how having an empire might help countries fighting in World War One and whether colonies might want to help. After watching this short film ...

Punjab-born World War II veteran Havildar-Major Rajindar Singh Dhatt MBE has died in the UK aged 103.He was one of the last ...

The Sikh soldiers enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I were: The pair said shared values likely compelled the men to enlist in the Australian army. "The master Sikh Guru ...

Born in December 1893 in Punjab, India, the Canadian War Museum says Singh was one of 10 Sikh soldiers who fought in the First World War. Newspaper reports posted to the Canadian Virtual War ...

A memorial statue of a Gurkha soldier was erected in the Garden of Remembrance in Folkestone in 2015, paid for by public donations. The same year a statue for World War One Sikh soldiers was unveiled ...

Artist Taranjit Singh (Taran3d) designed the statue of the Sikh World War One soldier which was funded by donations from Sikh congregations, the wider public and Leicester City Council ward ...