Thousands of soldiers from pre-partition India who died while serving with the British Army during the first world war are being recognised for the first time.
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More than a century later, the names of 9,909 British Indian Army servicemen are being added to the casualty database by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, after researchers spent years tracking down their details.
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