May

“Thousand and hundreds of thousands of soldiers have lost their lives. If you go on the field of battle you will see corpses piled upon corpses, so that there is no place to put a hand or foot. Men have died from the stench.

No one has any hope of survival, for back to Punjab will go only those who have lost a leg or an arm or an eye. The whole world has been brought to destruction.”

(English translation of an extract of a letter home from a Sikh soldier)Source: www.sikhs.org/ww1