Weve featured a number of letters captured by the military censor from Sikh soldiers back home. Often other Allied soldiers were seeing Sikhs for the first time and writing home. Here one of the Great Wars youngest soldiers, Horace Iles, from Leeds writes to his mum: We fight alongside soldiers from other countries too. Like India. I met a Sikh soldier with a turban. He said Paris was like heaven — except that the bread was horrible: burnt on the outside and raw on the inside. They are brave warriors. But like everyone fighting, they understand that it’s terrible. “No man can return to the Punjab whole,” my Sikh friend said. “Only the broken-limbed can go back.” I hope he gets home safe. thehindu/features/kids/letter-to-leeds/article6074777.ece
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:37:49 +0000
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