Documents from the UK National Archives reveal the frantic efforts of the commander-in-chief, General Claude Auchinleck, who ...

The Dekwala-born former British Indian and Indian Army veteran turned 100 this September. To his surprise, the army organised ...

But after the British surrendered their colony ... is a Singapore-based author whose book on the Indian Army Prisoners of World War II is being published by Penguin India and Pen & Sword UK ...

As a result he was awarded the Indian Distinguished Service ... to fight for Britain from several British Empire countries. Most of these troops were in the army, but some fought in the RAF ...

But here we're looking at one particularly adept group of fighters, the Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army. The important role they played and how they were treated once the war had been won.

The Indian Army traces its origins to the armies of ... who had already earned respect for his leadership during World War II and the First Indo-Pak War in 1947-48. His appointment as the ...