Name: Sangrand – Kirtan Diwan
Start: 2025-03-14T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-14T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Gurdwara Sahib Woolwich

This page provides a Gallery of Images from various events.

Sikhs in World War I (The Great War)

Stalwarts from the East: A French lady pins a flower on the Sikh saviours of France, Paris, 1916. (Toor Collection)
Men of the 15th Sikh Regiment spend time with locals in a Flanders village after weeks in the trenches of the Western Front, c. 1915. (UKPHA Archive)
A Sikh soldier in a German prisoner-of-war camp, c. 1915. (Toor Collection)
Belgium street kids taunt a German soldier by dressing up as Sikh soldiers, c.1915. (Toor Collection)
A listing of captive Sikh soldiers who underwent a study into their racial origins by German scientists, c. 1918. (UKPHA Archive)
Sikh and British wounded recovering from injuries sustained in the front line to their left hand or arm, Southampton, c. November 1914. (UKPHA Archive)
Front cover of The Great War magazine showing men of the 45th Sikhs serving with British troops on the banks of the Tigris River, marching with their sacred scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, in Mesopotamia, 1918. (Courtesy of Nanaki and Sahib Collected Works)
A propaganda postcard praising the contribution of Indian soldiers to the Allied cause, c. 1915. (UKPHA Archive)
For the glory of the Raj: Indian troops charging the German trenches at Neuve Chapelle, March, 1915. An engraving of a painting by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr. (Courtesy of Nanaki and Sahib Collected Works)
A profile sketch of Sohan Singh, the son of a Sikh farmer from Harpoke, a village in Punjab (now in Pakistan). He was born around 1894, and joined the 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force), a regiment in Britain's Indian Army, probably just before war broke out. During the World War I, the regiment served on the Western Front in 1914-15, fighting in the Battles of La Bassee, Givenchy, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Loos.
Sikh soldiers carrying " Guru Granth Sahib Ji" during World War II.
Sikhs in Paris during World War I. Kids who have never seen Sikhs before.
Sikhs going through the Flanders War Fields
Group of British & Indian officers, 15th Sikhs [Le Sart, France], standing in a French farmyard, 24th July 1915. Record of the Indian Army in Europe during the First World War. 20th century, 24th July 1915.
Sikhs welcomed in French Village
Sikhs getting Milk Rations
Wounded Sikhs walking through Brighton

Gurdwara Sahib Woolwich

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Sikhs in World War I (The Great War)

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