Published: 04 Aug 2014 - 10:47 pm | Last Updated: 26 Jan 2022 - 06:38 pm
Tourists are pictured past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the India Gate monument in New Delhi yesterday. India Gate, originally called the All India War Memorial, bears the names of some 70,000 Indian soldiers who died during the First World War in “France and Flanders, Mesopotamia and Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east,” as inscribed on the memorial’s arch. August 4 marked the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the War, a small Balkans conflict that went global with the German invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914.
