33,000 Indian Names Missing from Basra Memorial Listed

Highlights

• Indian Army names left off Basra Memorial for nearly 100 years.
• Digital memorial includes ranks and regiments for first time.
• Iraq safety issues prevent physical memorial updates.

The names of 33,000 Indian Army soldiers who died in the First World War have finally been honoured. They were left off a memorial in Iraq for almost 100 years.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission put up new digital name panels for the Basra Memorial earlier this month.

These panels show Indian soldiers’ names together with over 46,000 other Commonwealth…