Today, Britain will commemorate the foreign troops who fought with the Allies in the First World War.

Some of the UKPHA team and volunteers will be at the event in Lancaster House with artefacts to show the Sikh contribution.

The soldiers, sailors and airmen from the Commonwealth played in The First World War. More than 70,000 soldiers from the British Indian Army alone lost their lives during the conflict. Over 100,000 Canadians and Australians died in battle.

Lady Warsi will tell the event:

Tariqs and Tajinders fought shoulder to should with Tommies in Flanders, Ypres, Gallipoli and Passchendele.

And it is very clear without all of them Britain, the Allies, could not have prevailed. Without them we would not have the rights and freedoms that we all enjoy today.

Read more here.

Picture credit: Sikh Cavalrymen of the 29th Lancers Regiment (Deccan Horse) near Pys, armed with lances and making their way through a shell torn landscape, March 1917. (Lt John Warwick, courtesy IWM)

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