The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Senior Counsel Eric Baxter on the Army’s religious accommodation for religiously observant soldiers. Photo credit: The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
During the World War I, many Sikhs paid the ultimate sacrifice on Gallipoli, including 80 per cent of the soldiers of a single Sikh battalion. Click on the player at the top of the page to listen ...
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.
Sydney's Blacktown City Council has approved the establishment of a war memorial commemorating the contributions and sacrifices made by the Sikh soldiers in epochal moments of military history ...
In 2019 there were 130 Sikhs serving in the Army and another 70 across defence, according to the Royal Logistic Corps. Play The Telegraph’s brilliant range of Puzzles - and feel brighter every day.
Lt Gen Harbaksh Singh, who visited the battleground later, wrote, “It has come to light now that the dead of 4 Sikh at Walong were lying in their bunkers where they fought till the last in ...