1. My great-grandfather was a soldier in the First World War.
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@HeerJeet that would be an amazing adventure though!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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6. That little bit of family folklore speaks to the ambiguous position of imperial soldiers: they served the empire but had other plans.
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7. We think of imperialism as Europeans sending armies to Asia, Africa, the Americas. But there was a reverse traffic too.
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@HeerJeet after surviving the Great War, hitchhiking would seem to rank pretty low in terms of risk factors.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet It's a great premise for a novel, though. -
There's a novel 'Hira Singh' by Talbot Mundy (1917) the tale of a couple of Sikh soldiers in FWW who walk back to India from Europe
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