The memoir of a Parsi 'Tommy' from Navsari, Gujarat, reflects his investment in the power of the British empire but also his pride in history and myths located in the pre-Arab Persian empire, and an empathetic view of the Ottoman empire.
John Mather
Published:
3:00 PM April 18, 2021
Veterans march past the Fusiliers Museum in a previous Gallipoli Day parade in Bury
- Credit: Algy Cole
The people of Bury will pause in reverence this month, to remember the men of the Lancashire Fusiliers who were gunned down in the carnage of the Gallipoli campaign.
More than 1,800 members of the regiment lost their lives and many more were physically and mentally damaged by the experience.
In 1915 the Allied forces attempted to open up sea routes through the Black Sea to Russia and to weaken the Ottoman Empire.
It was to be one of the most disastrous episodes of the war, and hit the Bury-based Fusiliers particularly hard.