Comments on: 28th OCTOBER 1914 – WHEN THE INDIA CORPS ALMOST CHANGED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!

By: PM Bambawale

PM Bambawale — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:21:58 +0000

Absolutely outstanding.
Thanks for the beautiful piece of history.

By: Gulu Hora

Gulu Hora — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:25:33 +0000

Gulu Hora

to me

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing sir.
Everything forwarded by you is eminently readable.
Cheers
Gulu Hora.

By: Maj Gen Surjit Singh

Maj Gen Surjit Singh — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:47:44 +0000

The e-mail ID of Dr Sethi is given in the post. Kindly get in touch with him for any further information which you may need.
Surjit

By: Maj Gen Surjit Singh

Maj Gen Surjit Singh — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:45:27 +0000

As I was going through the text, embellished with the pictures, one question came to my mind, repeatedly. Great Britain had at least forty colonies when the World Wars were fought. They recruited more than two million soldiers from India and Nepal. But how is it that they did not enlist men from the other colonies, some of which had a substantial population. Burma, Malaya, Kenya and South Africa did not contribute to the war effort.
The answer which I have been able to figure out is that Indians had ‘soldiering’ traditions and had the ability to use weapons. It also seems to me that despite the freedom movement, the British considered Indians to be more trustworthy. On both counts, their judgement proved right. And now, they are acknowledging their gratitude in a befitting manner.
Surjit

By: Col Vivek Bopiah (retd)

Col Vivek Bopiah (retd) — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:08:24 +0000

I had read about all these battles and the heroism if the Indian soldiers. Had seen the names of the units on the walls and floor of Arc De Triomph.
You Sir have brought back memories and given life to them.
I must visit these monuments when I go next to France.
Warm regards,

Vivek

By: John Feltham

John Feltham — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 05:40:59 +0000

John Feltham
Jul 19, 2021, 1:15 PM (21 hours ago)
to surjit

Dear Sir,

I was recently sent this email “see below” which contained a very interesting article by – Dr. Anand Kumar Sethi. Unfortunately, there wasn’t an email address given for him.

A comment or two on the excellent article.

Dr. Anand Kumar Sethi writes…

“In July 1927, the ‘Last Post’ was played for the first time by buglers from the Somerset Light Infantry. Since 1928, buglers from the Last Post Association have been playing the Last Post in this very spot every night at 8 p.m., regardless of the number of attendants or weather conditions.”

This is not quite correct.

WWII came along and the Germans were back in Belgium and France.

The Belgians were not able to carry out their nightly service.

So the ceremony was moved, to of all places, the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey in the UK for the duration. Where the ceremony was carried out until the German surrender where upon it returned to Ypre.

You can see this mentioned on Wikipedia at…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menin_Gate

“Hence every evening at 20:00, buglers from the Last Post Association close the road which passes under the memorial and sound the “Last Post”.[27] Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 July 1928.[28] On the evening that Polish forcesliberated Ypres in the Second World War, on 6 September 1944 the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate despite the fact that heavy fighting was still taking place in other parts of the town.”

I am an RAF Vet who moved to Australia in 1969.

I was educated in India at La Martiniére College in Kolkata and Victoria School in Kurseong.

I visited the Menin Gate in October of 2012.

I also visited the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Heverlee, Belgium, where there are three RAF Air Crew officers, who were awarded Posthumous Victoria Crosses during WWII. One of these men was an old boy of Victoria School in Kurseong. I laid a wreath on the grave of the Victoria School old boy, a Ft. Lt Pilot who was killed on the first 1,000 Bomber raid on Cologne.

By: Brig PT Gangadharan

Brig PT Gangadharan — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:36:23 +0000

Forwarded to all my friends.

Gangadharan

By: Editor EME Journal

Editor EME Journal — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:05:48 +0000

EME Journal Eme
8:23 AM
to me

How true sir. Their respect for their martyrs is far more than that displayed by an Indian Citizen on average. An excellent read. Regards

Editor EME Journal

By: Col S S Malik

Col S S Malik — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:07:53 +0000

Sir. Indeed great piece to the legacy of brave indian soldier. The motivation to do the unthinkable acts of bravery, righteousness etc., comes not from far lands but the land called Bharat.

The land of RAM, KRISHN, ARJUN, GAUTAM, ASHOK, AND SANT SIPAHI LIKE GURU GOBIND SINGH AND LONG LIST THAT FOLLOWS..

As India reclaims its lost civilizational position, Iam quite sure there are many new chapters being added every moment.

By: Raj Mehta

Raj Mehta — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 05:17:18 +0000

Simply Brilliant