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Thank you for posting this.

I watched a movie, on Amazon Prime, called Kesari. Pretty good, if a little overly dramatic.

Well done. Thank you Sir.

Most Americans have no idea how courageous were the soldiers of the British Indian Army.

The largest all volunteer army during WWII?
The British Indian Army at 2.5 million volunteers.

How many Indians in the British Indian Army were awarded the Victoria Cross? 153, including five Indian civilians under military command.

Who fought and defeated the Italians in East Africa?
Primarily units of the British Indian Army. These battles protected the sea route to Persia and its oil and India with its wealth.

The Chindits (properly called Long Range Penetration Groups) ranks were filled with British Indian Army troopers.

I have the utmost admiration for both the officers (mostly Caucasians from Britain or of aBritish hermitage) and the NCOs and private soldiers of British Indian Army.

If you want to know why, read Lieutenant Colonel John Masters's DSO, OBE The Road Past Mandalay, considered among the best books on war and the training of a young officer ever written.

Interesting that nearly all 21 have the same first and last "names," which are not really names.

Sepoy means British-employed Indian soldier, and Singh is a surname for all male Sikhs.

So the only difference is the middle name, and several have the same.

Havildar Ishar Singh (regimental number 165)
Naik Lal Singh (332)
Lance Naik Chanda Singh (546)
Sepoy Sundar Singh (1321)
Sepoy Ram Singh (287)
Sepoy Uttar Singh (492)
Sepoy Sahib Singh (182)
Sepoy Hira Singh (359)
Sepoy Daya Singh (687)
Sepoy Jivan Singh (760)
Sepoy Bhola Singh (791)
Sepoy Narayan Singh (834)
Sepoy Gurmukh Singh (814)
Sepoy Jivan Singh (871)
Sepoy Gurmukh Singh (1733)
Sepoy Ram Singh (163)
Sepoy Bhagwan Singh (1257)
Sepoy Bhagwan Singh (1265)
Sepoy Buta Singh (1556)
Sepoy Jivan Singh (1651)
Sepoy Nand Singh (1221)

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:

Sepoy means British-employed Indian soldier, and Singh is a surname for all male Sikhs.

So the only difference is the middle name, and several have the same.

Havildar, Naik, Lance Naik, and Sepoy are their ranks. the list appears to show first and last names only.

I only know this due to a misspent youth reading the Flashman books....

Bill R

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A bit of a necro post but, watched this last night on Prime. An extraordinary last-stand that ranks right up there with Thermopylae, the Alamo, Roarks Drift and others. It is a Bollywood production, so there's embellishment and hero-scenes but, get beyond that, the story itself is one hell of tale of courage. As a side-note, the two white guys speaking Hindi...are Americans

With the US pull-out of Afghanistan, a movie like this impresses that not much has changed in that part of the world.

Is this what the 1974 film, Zulu is based on?

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Originally posted by redstone:
Is this what the 1974 film, Zulu is based on?

That was Rorke's Drift (in Africa not India), another incredible story of bravery against insurmountable odds.