First Indian VC
Until a Royal Warrant was signed in 1911, ethnic Indian officers, NCOs, and men could not be awarded the Victoria Cross. The first such award was made to an Indian Sepoy during the first few months of the First World War.
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FIRST WORLD WAR
During the so-called ‘Race to the Sea’ in the autumn of 1914, British forces had managed to secure and hold the Belgian city of Ypres, thus preventing the Germans from sweeping round the coast and cutting Sir John French’s communications with the UK....
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