POV You Are an Indian Soldier in World War 1

It is 1914. You are Sepoy Bishan Singh of the 47th Sikhs, a farmer's son from the Punjab with a rifle, a regiment, and a brass water pot your father pressed into your hands. In a few weeks you will cross the black water, land in a country of rain and mud, and fight in a war that was never yours to choose. More than a million Indian men served overseas in the First World War. This is what it may have felt like to be one of them: the voyage from Karachi to Marseilles, the first brutal winter on the Western Front, Neuve Chapelle, the gas at Ypres, a hospital in Brighton, and a homecoming into a country that was changing around you. Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial and Indian Army casualty records Imperial War Museum: collections on the Indian Army on the Western Front David Omissi, Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-18 George Morton-Jack, The Indian Army on the Western Front Shrabani Basu, For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18 Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust, Brighton: the Pavilion as a hospital for Indian soldiers, and the Chattri memorial Nigel Collett, The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer (for Jallianwala Bagh, 1919) British Library, India Office Records: censored letters and Indian Army records #WorldWar1 #IndianArmy #WW1History #POV #HistoryStorytelling #animatedhistory This is a dramatised historical narrative. The events, dates, places and units are real and researched. The characters, names and dialogue are fictional, created to represent what ordinary soldiers experienced. Made to remember and understand, not to glorify war or endorse any regime. Visuals produced using AI-assisted tools. Spot a factual error? Tell us in the comments.