Names of 33k Indians added to World War I memorial
India, April 25 -- The names of 33,000 Indian Army soldiers who died in the First World War but missing from a memorial in Iraq have finally been commemorated in digital form. Iraq, then Mesopotamia, had been the scene of the British Empire's largest operations outside of Europe in the early 20th century. The Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC), a charity with a remit of commemorating all Commonwealth servicemen and women who died during the two World Wars, have introduced new digital name panels for the Basra Memorial in Iraq to ensure the missing names can be included. "A historical wrong is being righted. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten," said Shrabani Basu, CWGC Global Advisory Panel member, about the initiative to add the names of the 33,000 Indian soldiers in the digital memorial.HTC...
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