Guerre 1914 - Hindu Fumant La Pipe [Indian Smoking a Hookah]
![Guerre 1914 - Hindu Fumant La Pipe [Indian Smoking a Hookah]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/guerre-1914-hindu-fumant-la-pipe.jpg?itok=kwDQFF8z "Guerre 1914 - Hindu Fumant La Pipe [Indian Smoking a Hookah]")
Postmarked May 24, 1919, some six months after World War I was over, though the card itself is probably dated earlier. Note the European man apparently smoking a pipe in the background.
World War I
Armee Anglo-Indienne – Type de soldat Indien [British Indian Army - Indian Soldier]
![Armee Anglo-Indienne – Type de soldat Indien [British Indian Army - Indian Soldier]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/armee-anglo-indienne-seated-soldier.jpg?itok=qs0W3abw "Armee Anglo-Indienne – Type de soldat Indien [British Indian Army - Indian Soldier]")
Postmarked Dec. 3, 1914, this portrait would have been made soon after the first soldiers from India arrived in France, where their presence was widely celebrated in the press and on postcards.
Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]
![Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/pratap-singh-colour.jpg?itok=uXeXaXC1 "Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]")
A stunning example of what a well-tinted, non-discoloured postcard looks like some 120 years later.
Sir Pratab Singh (1845-1922) made it on to many postcards as one of the best known Indian officers in the British Indian army, having served from the
The Indian Army - Indian Hairstyle
Note the hookah on the ground, next to the soldier unraveling his turban, a sight for French spectators captured here on a postcard.
[Original caption] L'Armee de l'Inde – La Coiffure de l'Hindou
Prisoner of War Camp 2 Munster in Wunsdorf 1916 Roll Call
Prisoners, many of whom would have been from India, lining up at the German prisoner of war camp in Munster.
Downed English Fighter Plane
A British fighter plane, called "Rawalpindi" and named after the 29th Punjab regiment, brought down in apparently excellent condition by German forces during World War I.
The Indian Army - The Music
Indian troops in France brought their own music bands which created great interest among the French, who attended concerts in towns where these men performed. Note the dhols and flutes shown here. As one correspondent wrote: “Mr. G.
Indian Bakers at La Penne near Marseille
Indian troops in France were supplied by their own cooks and bakers, with the scent of freshly baked naan in tandoori ovens often wafting over the countryside as reported by the journalists who accompanied them.
Troopship leaving Bombay Harbour
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from India were recruited to fight with the Allied armies in Europe, Africa and Mesopotamia during World War I, and most passed through Bombay on their way to the front.
Prisoner of War Camp, Zossen-Wunsdorf, Muslims
During the first World War, the Germans held their captives at a number of camps, and Muslims in particular would find themselves at Zossen-Wunsdorf not far from Berlin.
