Salt of the Sarkar

My book 'Asia in Flanders Fields. Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914-20' will be launched at the National Army Museum on 16 December. All welcome. nam.ac.uk/whats-on/asia-…

Help save the First World War observation post in Ramskapelle (Nieuwpoort, Belgium) secure.avaaz.org/community_peti…

Forgotten Battlefields: The Indian Corps at Neuve-Chapelle. The latest episode of #OldFrontLine now on @Spotify. open.spotify.com/episode/5pTh7t…

Ollie will be playing the Last Post as he does every year @staugustineSE23 If you would like to ‘attend’ the service the link is below. The church is looking beautiful. @andrewmcmurtrie @OpheliaM3 @PhilippaCotton @AnnaBozzy @cegoffin @GillGauntlett @LisaOP14 @EdTheVicar

@hannahcusworth These are the @mirrorpix images shared with us by @TMArchivist, taken by Horace Grant, pioneer Daily Mirror press photographer. See short film saltsarkar.com/our-plans/. They illustrate historical background of 1st chapters of novel - Marseille & Orleans

These photos are absolutely next level, shame I can't afford to put them in my Oak enquiry 😂gettyimages.co.uk/photos/lahore-…

The Lochnagar Crater Foundation - Somme Memorial - History lochnagarcrater.org As ever on 1st July a message of Peace and Reconciliation on this 104th anniversary posted this morning following a small commemoration at the Crater

If you are free on Fri 26th June @ 3-4 pm, please join me for a live conversation with @GeorgieWemyss co-director @CMRB_UEL as we continue to celebrate @NewhamHeritage Month & discuss the awesome, often hidden history this borough holds on BAME seafarers eventbrite.co.uk/e/asif-shakoor…

Unidentified members of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) in France, during World War I. #WWI #WW1 #France #India #WorldWar Cc @IndiaHistorypic

Tonight's Last Post. The most lonely ever.

A Writer's War bookshelf.mml.ox.ac.uk/2020/03/18/a-w… Do listen to this thought-provoking series with @OxfordSpiresAc @OxfordModLangs & @MagdLibAndArch.With thks to @naxos_uk for the wonderful music.

A remarkable film made in 1919 of Indian veterans of the trenches at the Cenotaph - built to commemorate all who died fighting for Britain in #WW1 including Indians - as Londoners watched on, and afterwards at Buckingham Palace #RememberTogether #LestWeForget

With you in our thoughts, & wonderful to hear how the Crater’s presence on the Somme is a continuing circle inspiring Respect, Remembrance & Reconciliation for all who find their way to you

Wonderful to see 95 year old #WW2 veteran Sgt (Rtd) Mohammed Hussain being honoured at the #FestivalofRemembrance #London - He served in Italy with the British Indian Army in #WW2 & after partition joined the #Pakistan Army 🇵🇰#RemembranceSunday #RememberTogether #LestWeForget

@DigHill80 @SimonVerdegem @ProfPeterDoyle @GerMilHistory @FlandersWW1 @almurray @RaphDeBrant @jtogle @historyviz Dreadful casualties on all sides including Indian regiments newly arrived from India at Wytschaete on 22 October 2014 - decimated by 1 November. For what good reason one wonders now . . .

#OTD 105 yrs ago at 11pm the 6th Bav. Res. Div. was ordered to take Wijtschate. A few hours later soldiers of the 17th and 21th Bavarian Res. Inf. Reg. would silently launch their assault. Rifles unloaded, bayonets fixed. For both regiments it was to be their baptism of fire.

Dear Mr George Morton Jack i received your book Indian Empire at War. Thank you very much

And it meant the world to have some of the #partitionvoices interviewees and their families there too. There would be no book without them.

So thrilled to hear this & glad you were there to lay this wreath recognising the sacrifice of the huge army from Undivided India.