The World Wars are one of the most unfortunate events to have been inflicted upon by humans on them, though majorly the WWI was fought between the Allies and Germany but India had a huge part to play in it. We’ve dug up quite a few facts about India’s contribution to WWI.
1. India contributed with more soldiers than Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa combined.
2. Indian soldiers won 11 Victoria Cross honors, Britain’s highest military honors. Overall 13,000 medals were won by the Indian Corps.
3. Troops from India fought in all the major theatres of war, from the Western Front in Europe to Africa and China.
4. 53,486 Indian soldiers lost their lives, 64,350 were wounded and 3,762 went missing or were imprisoned.
5. Mesopotamia proved to be the deadliest battle ground, with 30,000 Indian casualties and 32,000 wounded
6. It wasn’t just the wounds of battle that killed the Indian soldiers. Nearly 9,000 died due to severe winters in France.
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