This section recognises the Great War contributions of Dulmial village in (post-partition) Pakistan the ancestral home of Dr Irfan Malik a Nottingham GP raised and educated in the city’s Meadows district. Over one million men from the Indian Sub-Continent fought overseas for the allies during World War One. Sixty thousand were killed and sixty seven thousand wounded. In total seventy four thousand Indian soldiers died during the conflict. Dulmial is in Punjab approximately one hundred miles south of Islamabad in the Salt Range region. A settlement steeped in military history, Dulmial sent four hundred and sixty of its men, out of a male population of only eight hundred and seventy nine, including both of Dr Malik’s great grandfathers, to fight in the British Army. It was the largest single participation of any village in Asia. Nine from the village gave their lives. During World War Two eight hundred Dulmial men fought for the British cause and twenty were killed. It is hoped to create further memorials on this site to British Empire servicemen killed during the Great War with descendants or relatives living in twenty first century Nottinghamshire.
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