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French NGO to remember Indian soldiers from WWI

French NGO to remember Indian soldiers from WWI
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Amritsar: Interfaith Shaheedi Association (ISCA) based in France will hold an exhibition on November 11 to remember the unmatched heroes of World War I (WWI) as part of the warning of the Great War.
Stating that 140000 Indian soldiers have participated in WWI where nearly 74,000 soldiers gave their lives to France between 1914-1918, the founding president of Isca Ramesh Vohra told Ti “this first of a type of exhibition painting that strokes a better historical sketch that is more complete than Thousands of Indian soldiers (including Pakistan at this time) sent to the West Front in France and Belgium under the British army during WWI “added that many of which gave their lives while others remained unknown or very little known.
Vohra told that this exhibition consists of paintings, images, personal and official photos, press articles, films, posters, and objects; highlight the absence of representation of the Indian army from the first World War.
“It is presented to the public for the first time and reflects a variety of life testimonies of a different Indian soldiers, their way of life, their culture and religion, as well as the facts of unknown Indian participation in the world of war.” He said.
VOHRA who has written 122 pages of coffee table exhibition in two versions, France and England, said that he got several paintings made of street artists from Delhi, Vietnam, Malaysia and so on.
Sarfraz Khokhar Ex-Légionnaire whose grandfather Muhammad Zaman participated in WWI said that his grandfather was a war prisoner (POW) in Japan.

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