WW1 Punjab’s Defenders of the Crown On April 25 1915 an Allied force of 5 divisions, 4 British and 1 French, landed on the southern tip of Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula. Commanded by General Sir Ian Hamilton their objective was to fight their way through all…
On this Victoria Day 100 years ago, Canadian & Punjabi mettle thrilled the Empire. In the spring of 1915, while the British 2nd Army continued the fight to defend Ypres in Belgium, the 1st British Army under Sir Douglas Haig began a co-operative assault with…
In sacred fields of tomorrows lost, lie eastern sons of a foreign soil, desolate, where the poppies blow, their names known only unto God. In Remembrance of the men of the Canadian & Indian Expeditionary forces that gave their lives for King & Crown, in…