With the Indians in France (Registro nro. 117727)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 22019803 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | D501 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Willcocks, James, Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1857-1926 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | With the Indians in France |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-10-07 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | 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.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1920 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front |
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| Uncontrolled term | India. Army |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- India |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t8w95bx9n&view=1up&seq=350">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t8w95bx9n&view=1up&seq=350</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77003">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77003</a> |
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