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A senior officer's firsthand account recounts the deployment and combat experiences of Indian troops on the Western Front during the First World War, combining operational narrative, battalion and individual anecdotes, maps and appendices. It traces the corps' movements, actions at major engagements, daily life in trenches, wounds and heroism, and the cultural and religious dimensions of soldiers serving far from home. Chapters mix tactical description with diary entries, tributes to fallen comrades, statistical material, and poems or memorial sketches that honor loyalty and sacrifice. The author emphasizes the formations' conduct, organization, and the practical and emotional challenges of campaigning in unfamiliar terrain and climate.

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Title: With the Indians in France

Author: Sir James Willcocks

Release date: October 7, 2025 [eBook #77003]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1920

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WITH THE INDIANS IN FRANCE

By
General Sir JAMES WILLCOCKS
G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.S.L., D.S.O., LL.D.
LONDON
CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD.
1920
TO MY BRAVE COMRADES OF ALL RANKS OF THE INDIAN ARMY I DEDICATE THIS BOOK WHICH IS AN EARNEST ENDEAVOUR TO RECORD THEIR LOYALTY AND UNPERISHABLE VALOUR ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE AND BELGIUM
From BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE
December 1917.