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Over one million Indian troops served overseas during the war. In total, at least 74,187 Indian soldiers died in World War I. [19] Child soldiers, some as young as 10 years old, were enlisted to fight in the war. [24]
Graves of French soldiers who died on the Ypres Salient, Ypres Necropole National, Ypres, Belgium The India Gate in Delhi commemorates the Indian soldiers who died during World War I. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Annual Report 2014–2015 [11] provides current statistics on the military dead for the British Empire. The war dead ...
In 1914, the British Indian Army was larger than the British Army itself, and between 1914 and 1918 an estimated 1.3 million Indian soldiers and labourers served in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In all, 140,000 soldiers served on the Western Front and nearly 700,000 in the Middle East, with 47,746 killed and 65,126 wounded. [81]
Indian subcontinent Vietnam War: 1.1–4.2 million [34] [35] [36] 1955–1975 North Vietnam and allies vs. South Vietnam and allies Indochina Nigerian Civil War: 3.04–4.1 million [37] [38] 1967–1970 Nigeria vs. Biafra: Nigeria Deluge: 3–4 milion [39] 1648–1666 Poland–Lithuania vs Swedish Empire and Russia: Eastern Europe French Wars ...
American Indian Wars: 1865–1898 919 919~ 1,025 1,944 [20] Red Cloud's War: 1866–1868 ... [Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Interred in ...
The Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located on the outskirts of the commune of Neuve-Chapelle, in the département of Pas-de-Calais.The memorial commemorates some 4,742 Indian soldiers (including Nepal) with no known grave, who fell in battle while fighting for the British Indian Army in the First World War.
India was part of the British Empire during the First World War, and more than 800,000 Indian soldiers fought for the Allied Powers. [3] During the four years of fighting, thousands of wounded combatants were brought to Britain to be treated in makeshift military hospitals.
It includes 123 officers who died between the British entry into the war, 4 August 1914, and the armistice of 11 November 1918. Listed separately are 34 who died between the armistice and 31 August 1921 which was defined by an act of British parliament as the formal end of the war.