20-08-2019: Participation of India in 1st World War Miniature Sheet

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Out of an estimated population of 315 million in the Indian subcontinent, 150,000 volunteers came forward. About 50,000 were in active service in the Indian Corps on the front line and in supporting battalions on the Western Front in France and Belgium. Within a month of the start of the war, the Indians were in action on the Western Front, where Khudadad Khan became the first Indian to win the Victoria Cross in the first battle. Khudadad Khan was Fighting with great distinction against the Turks in the Mesopotamian Campaign. Indians served on the Gallipoli Peninsula and also went to East and West Africa and China. Participants of India in the 1^st World War from the Indian subcontinent won 13,000 medals, including 12 Victoria Crosses and by the end of the war, a total of 47,746 Indians were reported killed.

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On 20 August 2019, the Indian Post department issued a set of fifteen Miniature Sheets. Khudadad Khan was born in 1887 in Punjab and he joined the army as an unofficial soldier. He joined the army as a soldier for the opportunity of honour and glory. Khudadad Khan was in 1914, the 129th Baluchi was one of 20,000 Indian soldiers sent to the front line. Their task was to help the exhausted soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force and prevent the Germans from capturing the French and Belgian ports. Khudadad Khan faced well-equipped German forces under appalling conditions, including taking cover as a machine gunner. If you want to know more about the Participation of India in 1^st World War Miniature Sheet and Indian Stamps then visit Philacy.com