Illiterate but Literary? The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18

A Benet-Mercier machine gun section of 2nd Rajput Light Infantry in action in Flanders, 1915

More details: NAM. 1995-03-86-9

In this talk Dr David E Omissi will reveal the realities of the Western Front as seen through Indian soldiers’ eyes.

Dr Omissi is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Hull, specialising in the military history of the British Empire, with an emphasis on British India. He is the author of ‘Indian Voices of the Great War’ (1999) and ‘Europe Through Indian Eyes: Indian Soldiers Encounter England and France, 1914-1918′ (2007).

This talk is part of the National Army Museum’s regular Lunchtime Lectures series.

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