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The Indian Army, also called the British Indian Army, was involved in World War I as part of the British Empire. More than one million Indian troops served overseas, of whom more than 60,000 died during the war. [1] In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire on the Western Front.
The Battle of Chumb (3 December – 16 December 1971) was a major battle between the forces of Pakistan and India during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.It was one of the first major engagements in the western front of the war in which the Pakistani 23rd Division captured the strategically important city of Chumb from the Indian 10th Infantry Division.
The Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial commemorates 4,700 Indian soldiers and labourers who died on the Western Front during the First World War and have no known graves; the location was chosen because it was at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle that the Indian Corps fought its first big offensive action. [23]
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]
British officers that understood the language, customs, and psychology of their men could not be quickly replaced, and the alien environment of the Western Front had some effect on the soldiers. [3] The 2nd Indian Cavalry Division was renamed the 5th Cavalry Division on 26 November 1916, and attached to the 5th Army. [4]
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]
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.
In support of the British war effort, the Indian Army deployed expeditionary forces to the Western Front, East Africa, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Sinai and Palestine. India was thus vulnerable to hostile attention from Afghanistan. A Turco-German mission arrived in Kabul in October 1915 with obvious strategic purpose.