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The Men of The Punjab: The Heroes Within Our Midst – Revisited 2015 A decade ago I wrote an article The Men of The Punjab: The Heroes Within Our Midst celebrating the Year of the Veteran; a story that was printed in the Vancouver Sun,…
Subedar Manta Singh Johal, 15th Ludhiana Sikhs Son of Khem Singh of Salempur, Masandan, Jalandhar PUNJAB Born : 1870 / Died : March 20, 1915 On this day 100 years ago an injured Indian soldier tragically died from wounds sustained in a courageous act of…
The storm that had loomed large on the horizon broke on March 10th. 100 years ago today the battle of Neuve Chapelle first tore open the Western Front. The Lahore Division had landed in France 6 months in September 1914 , its ranks on a…
The winter of 1914-15 had paralysed an overwhelming German force, entrenching it in a frozen scar across the French & Belgian landscape. While the winter would be hard on everyone, Indian moral remained high as the battered allies glad for the respite settled into a…
During the winter of 1914-15, the war, expected by many to be over by Christmas, took a breath as both sides dug in along the Western Front. Rank and file remained cheerfully oblivious to the long bloody onslaught that awaited them. Instead, during these early…
On October 21st 1914 Mewa Singh, a Ghadarite, assassinated William Hopkinson on the streets of Vancouver, on the very day Punjabi soldiers first entered the line of fire in Europe in the first World War. Both would make the ultimate sacrifice upholding the time honoured…