A number of "soldiers" in kaki uniforms appeared on London railway stations on 1st July 2016 (and elsewhere in UK). If approached "the soldier" had been told to give out a card with the name and details of a serviceman who had been killed/injured. the image shows soldiers at Waterloo in world war 1 uniforms

Lest we forget, 400,000 Muslim soldiers fought in World War One , yet a recent survey by British Future, a think-tank dedicated to racial integration, has revealed that only 22 per cent of people know of their sacrifice.

And only a pitiful two per cent are aware of the scale of that sacrifice. 

Almost one-and-a-half million men from India took part in the war,” [  ] “That is more than all the other Empire countries put together.

“They fought on the Western Front, in the trenches, when the Germans were making great advances and they were instrumental in solidifying the British force.

At the outbreak of war, the Indian army was 1.3 million strong, with the ranks including 100,000 Sikhs and 800,000 Hindu troops.

Of that massive force, 62,060 were killed in action. They gave their lives at epic battles such as the Somme and Ypres. Hundreds were killed in a gallant, but futile, engagement at Neuve Chappelle.

More than 1,000 of them lost their lives at Gallipoli and nearly 700,000 sepoys fought in Mesopotamia.

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