Project Gutenberg 2025-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 1005 Willcocks, James, Sir 1857 1926 22019803 With the Indians in France $aLondon :$bConstable & Co Ltd, $c1920. Richard Tonsing, Brian Coe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "With the Indians in France" by Sir James Willcocks is a firsthand military memoir written in the early 20th century. It presents the Indian Army Corps’ experience on the Western Front, stressing their loyalty, endurance, and the realities of fighting in France and Belgium alongside British and French troops. From a commander’s viewpoint, it addresses battlefield performance, cultural and logistical challenges, and the interplay between Indian units and their British officers. It will appeal to readers of World War I history and those curious about imperial forces in modern warfare. The opening of the book moves from a ballad of a Sikh veteran, Hurnam Singh, celebrating Indian courage from Messines to Neuve Chapelle, into an introduction that defines the scope: not a grand history of the front, but an insider’s account of the Indian Corps. Willcocks explains his sources and aims, defends his men against ill‑informed criticism, and bluntly diagnoses systemic weaknesses—shortages of equipment, a flawed reserve system, too few British officers, and parsimony in India—while praising the quality of British gunners, Indian sappers, and the devotion of Indian ranks. He sketches influential figures (Roberts, Kitchener, Minto, Hardinge, Roos‑Keppel) and recounts assembling the Lahore and Meerut Divisions, the welcome in Marseilles, the logistical scramble at Orléans, and the swift move to Flanders. He highlights smooth cooperation with the French and then describes the Corps’ baptism of fire near Ypres, where battalions were split up and thrown in piecemeal. Early actions by the Connaught Rangers, the 57th (Wilde’s) Rifles, and the 129th Baluchis show confusion, heavy losses of British officers, and striking acts of bravery, culminating in the machine‑gun stand that led to Sepoy Khudadad Khan’s Victoria Cross. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t8w95bx9n&view=1up&seq=350 20191118234112willcocks 1920 GB en World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front India. Army World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- India D501 Text 1221460 2025-11-30T10:16:48.680472 text/html 1117878 2025-10-07T13:50:44 text/html 1856380 2025-11-30T10:17:07.791394 application/epub+zip 1855005 2025-11-30T10:16:52.756423 application/epub+zip 486897 2025-11-30T10:16:50.588453 application/epub+zip 2150110 2025-11-30T10:17:18.047312 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2086653 2025-11-30T10:17:05.909368 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 884512 2025-11-30T10:16:44.691952 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 864601 2025-10-07T13:50:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16359 2025-11-30T10:17:18.219319 application/rdf+xml 11067 2025-11-30T10:16:51.037426 image/jpeg 1719 2025-11-30T10:16:50.811426 image/jpeg 1800014 2025-11-30T10:16:48.784423 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia