Detail from the Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle: the battles in which the Indian Corps fought. © 2013, John M. Shea
1914 France and Flanders 1918La Bassee 1914Messines 1914Armentieres 1914Ypres 1914 15GheluveltFestubert 1914 15Givenchy 1914Neuve ChapelleSt JulienAubersLoosSomme 1916BazentinDelville WoodFlers-CourceletteMorvalCambrai 1917
Units of the Indian Expeditionary Force began arriving in France in September 1914, and fought at Messines Ridge, Belgium, in October. By November, the IEF made up one third of the British Army fighting on the Western Front. The Indian Corps first fought as a single unit at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915, making up half of the Allied force.Later in 1915, they fought at St. Julien (Ypres salient) in April, at Aubers Ridge and Fustubert in May, and at the Battle of Loos in September. The Corps was redeployed to the Middle East in December, 1915.The Indian Cavalry Corps remained and Indian laborers remained on the Western Front.The Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle commemorates over 4,700 members of the Indian Corps who died on the Western Front and have no known grave.SourcesIndian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle.
Indian Corps is a corps in The British Army.
