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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, flag / banner / standard, empire / commonwealth, military personnel, military vehicles, weapons, uniform, camouflage, radio Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background and held within a yellow border. image: a depiction of four Indian infantryman being transported in the back of a military motor vehicle. One soldier is armed with a machine gun, whilst another holds a rifle. Another soldier wears a headset and operates a radio. The smaller image is a Union Flag. text: BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH WARRIORS IN THE FAR EAST INDIAN TROOPS Men from India's Army of over 2,000,000 volunteers have been engaged against the enemy since the very start of the war. They were in France in 1940. They fought Germans and Italians in Abyssinia, North Africa, and Italy. They saw active service in Syria, Iran, and Iraq. They have fought the Japanese with their brothers-in-arms from the United Kingdom in Malaya, Singapore, and Burma. They formed part of General Wingate's Chindit force which penetrated some 200 miles behind the Japanese lines. Many of the men now serving with the Fourteenth Army are veterans of these earlier campaigns. In the Indian Army, Hindus and Mohammedans, Sikhs and Gurkhas, fight side by side with troops from the U.K., who constitute one-third of all Indian divisions. Indian troops are numbered among the Empire's finest warriors. During the war, volunteers have joined up at the rate of 50,000 to 60,000 a month, while the number of Indians who become officers has increased from 400 to about 11,000. The picture above shows Indian troops who took part in the campaign in Burma. FOR FREEDOM O.P.D. 365/13/34 Object: machine gun, rifle, headset, radio, helmet, flag | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Associated Person: Wingate, Orde Charles (Major General) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5171... | Go to resource |
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