9,909 Indian World War I soldiers added to official UK records

Key facts

• A total of 9,909 Indian soldiers previously missing from the records of those killed during the First World War were added to the official records in the United Kingdom (UK).
• The names were recovered through the Punjab Registers project, a five-year partnership between the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), UK Punjab Heritage Association, and University of Greenwich.
• The research involved digitising and analysing documents held at Lahore Museum containing service details of approximately 320,000 Punjabi recruits.
• Between July 1914 and November 1918, more than 1.4 million men from the British Indian Army served, including half a million from Punjab consisting of Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian servicemen.
• The project is part of the CWGC's Non-Commemoration Programme, established in 2021, which has identified more than 20,000 additional names for commemoration.