World War I

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 UK on Monday, after a major research project drawing on rare historical records. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) said a past historical omission meant that these Army servicemen from pre-Partition India, who fought as part of the British Indian Army during the colonial era in the twentieth century, were never formally commemorated. These forgotten soldiers have now been acknowledged following the Punjab Registers project, a five-year partnership between the CWGC, UK Punjab Heritage Association and University of Greenwich. "Over a century after the end of the First World War, our mission endures, ensuring all those who died in the service of the Commonwealth receive the commemoration they deserve," said Claire Horton, Director General of the CWGC an intergovernmental organisation charged with maintaining war graves an

Parallels between the two wars abound, from the grinding nature of the fighting to the way new technologies reshaped warfare

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The last of the United States' declared chemical weapons stockpile was destroyed at a sprawling military installation in eastern Kentucky, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has announced, a milestone that closes a chapter of warfare dating back to World War I. Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky destroyed rockets filled with GB nerve agent, completing a decades-long campaign to eliminate a stockpile that by the end of the Cold War totalled more than 30,000 tonnes. "Chemical weapons are responsible for some of the most horrific episodes of human loss," McConnell said in a statement on Friday. "Though the use of these deadly agents will always be a stain on history, today our nation has finally fulfilled our promise to rid our arsenal of this evil." The weapons' destruction is a major watershed for Richmond, Kentucky and Pueblo, Colorado, where an Army depot destroyed the last of its chemical agents last month. It's also a defining moment for arms control efforts .

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to Egypt beginning on Saturday will pay tribute to the brave Indian soldiers who fought and lost their lives in Egypt and Palestine during World War I. Modi's two-day state visit to Egypt at the invitation of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister since 1997. He will visit the Heliopolis Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery here, a solemn site that serves as a memorial to nearly 4,000 soldiers from the Indian Army who served and perished in Egypt and Palestine during World War I. "We are informed that the Prime Minister will soon come to visit the cemetery. Egyptians are generous people and will welcome him," Marwan, a local resident, said. "The Commonwealth Cemetery is known to be for the soldiers who fought here during the World War. We always welcome visitors and tourists here and in Egypt in general, especially the Indian Prime Minister. We are honoured to have him visit us anywhere

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The never-before-published files contain thousands of letters, pictures and other papers sent between the Commission and the next of the kin of First World War dead

The film begins with basic training footage, in black and white, building to the moment when the soldiers go to the Western Front

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Around 70 leaders including US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will mark the centenary of the 1918 Armistice in the French capital

Francis also quoted the definition of war as "useless slaughter" provided by Benedict XV, who was pope during World War I

Here's the timeline of World War I

Germany did pay, but it was not alone

The US President was scheduled to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, located about 85 kilometers east of Paris, with his wife Melania

During World War I, millions died, empires crumbled, nations were formed and maps were redrawn in ways that reverberate mightily a century later

Squadron Leader Rana Chhina, the secretary of the United Services Institution of India's Centre for Armed Forces Research, said the memorial is being built in Villers-Guislain

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