India Gate

Article By: Dan Hill

a year ago

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India Gate in Delhi is a memorial to 70,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in between 1914–1921 in the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. Inscribed below the word India, are the words: TO THE DEAD OF THE INDIAN ARMIES WHO FELL AND ARE HONOURED IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA EAST AFRICA GALLIPOLI AND ELSEWHERE IN THE NEAR AND THE FAR-EAST AND IN SACRED MEMORY ALSO OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED AND WHO FELL IN INDIA OR THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER AND DURING THE THIRD AFGHAN WAR. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Submitted by: Dan Hill, a year ago