Ludhiana: The people who live in Punjab and Diaspora Punjabi can finally track their ancestors and find out who is served in World War I (WWI) through the landmark website after a record of hundreds of thousands of forgotten troops for almost a century archive has been made Free to the public for the first time.
Website – http: // www.punjabw1.com/- has been launched by the Association of Heritage Punjab UK (UKPHA) and the University of Greenwich, London, on a memorial day.
This will eventually contain the digital version of the record of 3,20,000 Punjabi soldiers who fight in WWI who have lying in the Museum Lahore in Pakistan Relesearch.
Indian military hospital, Brighton Pavilion.
The converted pavilion became tended to injured Indian forces on the western front with the first patient to arrive in December 1914.
The launch, he contained a record of soldiers from three districts – Jalandhar and Ludhiana in India, and Sialkot in Pakistan when the war concluded in 1919, the government Punjab has compiled a series of registers that include the names of each man who has served in the Indian Army.
“On the partition, the notes are destroyed by the UK or separate and go to Lahore or Shimla.
This archive is for some reason to end in the Museum Lahore from all places,” explained the UKPHA seat Amandeep Madra.
“Half a million people went to war from Punjab.
But the Prince’s record is saved separately.
What we get is the areas managed by Britain, which is the majority of soldiers from Punjab who are not divided,” he said.
He hopes to release notes from the next Hoshiarpur and Amritsar.
The website will act as a repository to collect new history about those who serve.
Madra explained that as soon as he realized that register 320,000 war service personnel from Punjab sat in Lahore, he contacted the museum to request access.
After years of correspondence and construction of relations began in 2014, the first batch arrived in 2016 and the last batch came in 2019.
Some came as emailed and other photos as prints.
Consisting of 26,000 pages, they provide village-by-village data about war and pension services recruit Punjabi, as well as information about their family background, rank and regiment.
The grant is obtained to make it digitized and transcribed.
They can be sought based on names, regions, regiments or units, or by village.
This is the only archive of its kind because the Commonwealth War Graves Commission only has a note from those who died.
“Even though the ancestors of British and Irish soldiers can easily look for a public database of service records, there are no such facilities for the descendants of the colonial army,” said Dr.
Gavin Rand from the University of Greenwich.
Not only the project allowed the Punjabi community to access the notes of their ancestral service service, but provided unique insights into the villages of Punjab pre-partition, he said.
Punjab-based historian Sumail Singh Sidhu said the archive would help the warrior family ‘here “to close” Parkash Gasso described them as a “treasure for punjabis”.
Kin Sepoy Gurmukh Singh of the 3rd Sappers & Miners, from Rajgarh Village in Ludhiana, knew he was injured in the war but did not have more details and told TII they hope they expect the website to explain what happened.
Using the Rick Sandhu website, a Liverpool businessman, has been able to confirm that both grandgrandfather and the great uncle of Jalandhar district we returned in the war; With his great uncle killed in the action in Basra.
Actor Punjabi and singer Diljit Dosanjh have found that 51 soldiers joined from his village in Jalandhar and one killed in the action on the western front, while Minister Rail Shadow Tanmanjeet Singh Dheti had learned that four people from his village fought in the war and that.
His great grandfather, Mihan Singh, from the Hoshiarpur district, was a bread in Mesopotamia, who was injured.
Note shows that a soldier from the village of Conservative colleague Baronese Sayeeda Warsi in Rawalpindi Regency, Pakistan, served with Prime Minister Winston Winston Churchill on the Indian Northwest border.