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In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire on the Western Front. At the First Battle of Ypres, Khudadad Khan became the first Indian to be awarded a Victoria Cross. Indian divisions were also sent to Egypt, Gallipoli, German East Africa and nearly 700,000 served in Mesopotamia against the Ottoman Empire. [2]
A group of soldiers from the Indian Corps who had been mentioned in dispatches during fighting on the Western Front. In 1914 Indian Expeditionary Force A was sent to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fighting in France. In France it formed the Indian Cavalry Corps and Indian Corps composed of 3rd (Lahore) and 7th (Meerut) Divisions
The high number of officer casualties had an effect: British officers who understood the language, customs, and psychology of their men could not be quickly replaced; as well, the alien environment of the Western Front had an adverse effect on the soldiers. [3] Hew Fanshawe, from the 19th Hussars, commanded the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division in 1914.
For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914–18 is a book about the Indian contributions to the British efforts in the First World War, written by Shrabani Basu and published in 2015.
The division finally got into action piecemeal at the simultaneous Battles of La Bassee, 1st Messines and Armentieres along the British part of the Western Front in October–November 1914. The degree to which the division was broken up can be gauged by the 29 October entry in the diary kept by the Indian corps' commander, Lt-Gen Sir James ...
Western Front. Indian Cavalry Corps. 1st Indian Cavalry Division (in 1916 renamed 4th Cavalry Division) 2nd Indian Cavalry Division (in 1916 renamed 5th Cavalry Division) Indian Corps. 3rd (Lahore) Division (redeployed to Mesopotamia in 1915) 7th (Meerut) Division (redeployed to Mesopotamia in 1915) [1]
The 1st Indian Cavalry Division was a division of the British Indian Army which was formed at the outbreak of the First World War. It served on the Western Front , and was renamed the 4th Cavalry Division on 26 November 1916. [ 1 ]
He was at the time of his death the last surviving British Indian World War I veteran who had served on the Western Front. [note 1] A statue of Khudadad Khan is at the entrance of the Pakistan Army Museum in Rawalpindi. [11] In 2016 a play by Ishy Din, Wipers, about Khudadad Khan's feat was put on in a number of English theatres. [12]