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  • Britain to thank India for WWI role on October 30

    NEW DELHI : Colonel Amarsinh Savant (Retd) is excited about October 30. That evening, the former 82 Armoured Regiment officer, now based in Kolhapur (Maharashtra), will be attending a special function at the British High Commissioner's residence commemorating India's contribution to the First World War. Colonel Savant's great grandfather had sent all his six sons to fight for the King Emperor—a great sacrifice that was acknowledged by King George V himself. His grandfather died a hero's death fighting the armies of the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Ctesiphon in 1915, during the Mesopotamian campaign of the Great War: a theatre that had over 5,70,000 Indians almost singlehandedly driving the British Empire's war effort.
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