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Ep. 164 – The First Gurkha Officer – Pratap Chhetri
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Pratap Chhetri talks about his research into Rana Jodha Jung Bahadur, the first Gurkha officer in the British Army during the Great War. Your browser does not support the audio element. Dr Tom Thorpe [TT] : Welcome to ‘Mentioned in...
ONLINE : ‘The Indian Army during the First World War' with Stephen Barker
‘The Indian Army during the First World War: An Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Perspective’. During 1914-18, the 1st Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry fought in Iraq as part of the British Indian Army. Many of the soldiers who died in the campaign are commemorated on war memorials across Oxfordshire. This presentation highlights a project run b...
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'Ethnic Prisoners of War in German captivity' a talk by Thomas Mcloughlin
During the First World War the German Jihad Experiment led to the creation of the Halbmondlager (Half Moon Camp). A prisoner of War camp for Muslim and Ethnic Soldiers used as a secret weapon to try and win the war. This talk will explore the history of this camp but also why it is not more widely known. Thomas Mcloughlin works at the National A...
'The Indian Army at Hampton Court Palace' by Dr Tejpal Singh Ralmill
Caption: Indian Army officers at Hampton Court, pre-Great War About the talk: Why did over 4,000 soldiers from the Indian Army visit Hampton Court Palace over 100 years ago? They bivouacked there on a number of occasions in the early 20th century as they were invited to join the coronation celebrations of Edward VII (1902), George V (1911) and G...
Killed by Treachery
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Whilst working on an index that was being created for the two volumes of ‘The Bond of Sacrifice’, one of the WFA’s volunteers noticed an interesting line that had been inserted into an officer’s obituary. This obituary, for Lt Theodore Bailward of the 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry (a regiment of the Indian Army), stated he had been ‘Kille...