SikhSpectrum.com Quarterly Issue No.14, November 2003
The Stone of Remembrance at the center of the sanctuary with the main feature behind.
Neuve Chapelle, France
Bhupinder Singh Holland has complied a list of Sikh soldiers who died in Europe during the Great War. These names are available in many cemetaries and burial places in Europe while there where others who were buried as "unknown soldiers." Remembering and honoring the fallen is the greatest tribute we can give to all those who gave their today for our tomorrow.
Shadion ki chitaon per lagenge har baras meley,
vatan pe mitne valon ka yahi baki nisha(n) hoga
There will be carnivals in memory of the martyrs, year after year;
This will be remembrance of those,
who sacrificed their lives for the nation.
Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade after the Battle of Balaclava. It was later reproduced with this note:
"Having heard that the brave soldiers before Sebastopol, whom I am proud to call my countrymen, have a liking for my Ballad on the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, I have ordered a thousand copies of it to be printed for them - No writing of mine can add to the glory they have acquired in the Crimea; but if what I have heard be true, they will not be displeased to receive these copies of the Ballad from me, and to know that those who sit at home love and honour them." (Alfred Tennyson, 8th August, 1853)
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