Fallen Punjabi soldiers recognised
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Thousands of soldiers from pre-partition India who died while serving with the British Army during the first world war are being recognised for the first time. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] More than a century later, the names of 9,909 British Indian Army servicemen are being added to the casualty database by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, after researchers spent years tracking down their details. ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/
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