13 Things You Didn’t Know About India's Contribution To World War 1

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1. India contributed with more soldiers than Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa combined.

In fact, every sixth soldier fighting for the Biritsh Empire was from the Indian subcontinent. Nearly 800,000 combatants took part in the war.

2. Indian soldiers won 11 Victoria Cross honours, Britain’s highest military honour. Overall 13,000 medals were won by the Indian Corps.

3. Troops from India fought in all the major theatres of war, from the Western Front in Europe to Africa and China.

After the war, Indian soldiers continued to be engaged in various conflicts like the Third Afghan War and Waziristan Campaign.

4. 53,486 Indian soldiers lost their lives, 64,350 were wounded and 3,762 went missing or were imprisoned.

5. Mesopotamia proved to be the deadliest battle ground, with 30,000 Indian casualties and 32,000 wounded.

6. It wasn’t just the wounds of battle that killed the Indian soldiers. Nearly 9,000 died due to severe winters in France.

7. Apart from men and material, India also contributed with 100 million pounds of wealth.

8. Not just combatants, there were 43,737 men who worked in the Indian Labour Corps.

 

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9. Indian Royalty served in the war as well.

Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh, the Maharaja of Bikaner, commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps that served in France, Egypt and Palestine. He also represented British India in the Imperial War Cabinet. Maharaja Of Patiala, Bhupinder Singh fought in the Gallipoli Campaign, in present day Turkey.

10. Within weeks of the war being declared, India also supplied 70,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 600,000 rifles, motors and machine guns.

11. During the four years of war, the Army Clothing Department produced 41,920,223 garments.

12. By the end of the war, 1,302,394 personnel, 172, 815 animals and 369.1 million tonnes of supplies had left Indian shores.

13. The total value of India’s war contribution amounted to £ 80,000,000. That's about ₹ 7,420,800,000 in today's money.

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13 Things You Didn’t Know About India's Contribution To World War 1







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[Assange]

And yet Indian subcontinent soldiers never get recognized for their involvement in the war....

 

[Salik]

Indians showed professional discipline but it was done under Gora rule. Independence had different scenario.

Nine thousand died of cold weather its shocking. Now same have camps on snowy mountains : )