Kirpan

Sikh General in World War 1

kirpan — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:52:24 +0000

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala with Belgian Generals in April 1915. Photos: Courtesy Belgian Army Museum

Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100801/spectrum/main3.htm

Sikhs – Operation Crusader

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:57:55 +0000

Sikh soldiers from the Indian Army during Operation Crusader

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army_during_World_War_II

Source 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crusader

Sikh Wounded Warrior

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:46:01 +0000

“Nurse and other medical staff load a motor ambulance with a wounded Indian soldier,” by Unknown. The Imperial War Museum via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed September 26, 2015, http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3770.

Source: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3770?CISOBOX=1&REC=3

Sikhs Guarding France

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:43:40 +0000

Sikhs In France 1914 – 1915

Source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005017886/

Sikh Gas Masks

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:40:41 +0000

Indian Troops at Gas Mask Drill, World War I Source: Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive

Source: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3616?CISOBOX=1&REC=8

Sikhs In Baghdad

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:33:14 +0000

Frederick Stanley Maude with British Indian Army entering Baghdad in 1917.

Source: http://20thcenturybattles.com/2015/02/06/the-british-indian-army-during-the-first-world-war/comment-page-1/

1885 Cannon

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:30:23 +0000

No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery with RML7 pounder Mountain Gun in Review Order. Left to right Naick, Havildar, Subadar (Sikhs) and Gunner (Punjabi Musalman) circa 1895

Source: http://20thcenturybattles.com/2015/02/06/the-british-indian-army-during-the-first-world-war/comment-page-1/

1885 – Formation of Sikh Army

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:29:16 +0000

A group of Indian soldiers posing for volley firing orders. ~1895.

Source: http://20thcenturybattles.com/2015/02/06/the-british-indian-army-during-the-first-world-war/comment-page-1/

Sikh Infantry

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:25:55 +0000

A Benet-Mercier machine gun section of 2nd Rajput Light Infantry in action in Flanders, during the winter of 1914–15.

Source: http://20thcenturybattles.com/2015/02/06/the-british-indian-army-during-the-first-world-war/comment-page-1/

Keeping The Enemy In Check – A PostCard From France

kirpan — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:21:42 +0000

Arrival of 15th Sikh Regiment in France, quote; Gentlemen of India marching to chasten German hooligans

The 15th Sikh Regiment arrive in Marseille, France on their way to fight the Germans during the First World War.

Source: http://20thcenturybattles.com/2015/02/06/the-british-indian-army-during-the-first-world-war/comment-page-1/