Century of Struggle and Sucess The Sikh Canadian Experience by Sandeep Singh Brar Part V Wartime Contributions

There are a number of photographs of Sikhs in the war archives around the world, which show their wartime contribution. Sikhs in the trenches of Gallipoli in 1914. The allies suffered very high casualties in this major battle of World War I. Sikhs in Flander in 1916, another famous battlegroud which inspired the famous poem 'Flanders Fields'. A photograph from October 1914 shows a wounded Sikh soldier being loaded into an ambulance in France.