3rd (Lahore) Division
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The 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army and before 1895, the Bengal Army, first organised in 1852. It saw service during World War I as part of the Indian Corps in France before b
'2nd Mule Corps, Lahore Division', 5 November 1914
'Policemen Indiens de la Division de Lahore et l'A.P.M Locon', November 1914
3rd (Lahore Division) in camp at Cercottes near Orléans in France.
Study of a sepoy, standing beside a limber, with diagrams and dimensions of the limber, Estaires, France, 5 June 1915
The Indian Army, also called the British Indian Army, was involved in World War I as part of the British Empire. More than one million Indian troops served overseas, of whom more than 60,000 died duri
3rd (Lahore) Division
…Divisional Troops: As before, with addition of XLIII (Howitzer Bde, RA (40th & 57th Batteries) On 13 August 1915, General Sir John Nixon, commanding Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia, requested one of the Indian infantry divisions in France as reinforcements for his advance on Baghdad. Coincidentally, on the same day…
Indian troops during the Mesopotamian campaign
Propaganda postcard
Indians making munitions on the Home Front in 1915
Indian Cavalry on the Western Front