Indian soldiers go to war - newsreel of Mumbai in 1914

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Channel: BFI · 2017 · Film & Animation

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Gaumont Graphic No 383 (1914) 

Fascinating newsreel footage - in the final section - of Indian soldiers' contribution to World War One. The film shows Indian Expeditionary Force B about to depart from Bombay (Mumbai). Unfortunately, the sequence opens with a racist intertitle. 

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