 "To date, more than 1,300 of the surviving 3,000 First World War enquiry files have been digitised")
The remarkable story of an airman who overcame prejudice to become one of only a handful of Indian fighter pilots in the First World War has emerged in newly-released archive files by the UK's Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
Lieutenant Shri Krishna Chanda Welinkar is one of the thousands of moving stories from the war preserved in family correspondence and being brought alive as part of a digitisation project.
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.
Among them is the story of Welinkar, who
