10,000 Punjabi WWI soldiers to be commemorated. Nearly 10,000 Punjabi soldiers who fought and died for Britain in World War I were missing from official records for over a century but have recently been identified from archives discovered in Pakistan.
"Almost 10,000 forgotten Punjabi soldiers who fought in the First World War will be commemorated for the first time by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Their names had been missing from official records but they were discovered recently in Pakistan and now researchers are trying to track down their descendants here in the UK. This report is from our religion editor Ali Maqbo. World War I, 1.4 million people from the subcontinent, now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh fought for Britain in the British Indian army. Now painstaking re-examination of registers in an archive have revealed the names of nearly 10,000 of them whose deaths in World War I hadn't previously been officially recognised."
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10,000 Punjabi WWI soldiers to be commemorated. Nearly 10,000 Punjabi soldiers who fought and died for Britain in World War I were missing from official records for over a century but have recently been identified from archives discovered in Pakistan.