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A Cradle of Soldiers

This article was published in The Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland on 30th October 1914, written by British Army Officer Capt E.M.Maxwell. It tells the true story of how soldiers were recruited from a small village in the Salt…

The Well of Death, Ajnala Punjab

Ajnala in Punjab is a place 30 kms north of Amritsar, it holds a dark secret of history which I will explore. During the ‘Indian Mutiny’ in 1857 the 26th Bengal Native Infantry was disarmed at Mian Meer Cantonment, Lahore by the British.…