by anna | Nov 23, 2018 | Canada & the Caribbean, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Peter D Fraser Senior Research Fellow There is a memorial in Mumbai containing the names of perhaps the first British West Indians to die in combat in the First World War. They died around 8 p.m. on 1 November 1914 off the coast of Chile; they served as...
by anna | Nov 16, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Sue Onslow, Deputy Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Reader in Commonwealth History introduces a series of contributions by Senior Research Fellows at the Institute about the huge contribution made by Commonwealth volunteers to the war effort...
by anna | Nov 16, 2018 | Asia, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Balasubramanyam ChandramohanSenior Research Fellow In India the start of World War 1 generated a great wave of enthusiasm, commitment and mobilisation of taxes, and voluntary donations by individuals and the rulers of princely states, an ‘almost universal loyalty’...
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