The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914

Footsteps of the fallen

In this episode, we look at the fighting at Festubert in November 1914 where men of the Indian Army found themselves out-manned, out-gunned, and out-supplied by a rampaging German army.
Despite this, the Indian Corps fighting together as a full Corps for the first time on the Western Front stopped the Germans from getting through. We hear about the remarkable actions of Derwan Singh Negi who won the Victoria Cross for his near-suicidal bravery when clearing German trenches, the race to develop the perfect hand grenade, the origins of the "tickle-bomb", and the story of Lt Frank de Pass the first Indian officer, and the first member of the British Jewry to be awarded a VC during WW1.
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