Not a single offspring of any of troops mentioned below would have been allowed into Lawrence Asylums, or Lawrence Memorial Royal Military Schools
Not a single alumni of any Lawrence School achieved what the Victoria Cross winners described here did!
See my page Treatment: Indian Army V British Army
Here is a list of Indian Army deployments abroad on behalf of the British:
China 1860, 1900-01, Ethiopia 1867-1868, Malaya 1875′ Malta 1878, Egypt 1882, Sudan 1885-86, 1896, Burma 1885, East Africa 1896, 1897, 1898, Somaliland 1890, 1903-1904, Tibet 1903.
5787 Indian troops contributed to the Chinese War of 1857-67 that ended in the Treaty of Tientsin of 1857 and control of Canton, , 11,000 troops sent in 1860 to China, whose campaign ended in the capture and control of Peking, 12000 troops to release British captives from Abyssinia (Ethiopia), 9444 Troops and some 1.5 million rupees contributed in the suppression of rebillion in Egypt in 1882 and 1896, and 1219 soldiers dispatched to quell mutiny in East Africa. Britain used the British Army to complete its conquest of the Indian subcontinent in the Kandyan War of 1818 in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); and the Burmese War of 1824-26, in which 6 of every seven soldiers of the British Indian Army fell as casualties to sickness or war.
The British had a standing army of 325,000 men by the late nineteenth century, two thirds of which was paid for by Indian taxes. Every British soldier posted to India had to be paid, equipped and fed and eventually pensioned by the Government of India, not of Britain.
World War 1 and World War 2
18 VCs ( Awarded for the most conspicuous bravery, for some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy) awarded in World War 1 and 30 in World War 2.
More than 1 million Indian soldiers served in World War I as part of the British India Army, and more than 74,000 died in the conflict. In World War 2 two and a half million Indian Soldiers fought for the British of whom 87,000 laid down their lives.
Not a single child of any of the above soldiers would have been allowed entry into Lawrence School.
India’s contribution to defending Britain
In the photo below Ishar Singh VC. Ishar Sing won the Victoria Cross on 10 April 1921.
In the photo below, British Indian troops posing in front of the Temple of Heaven following the storming of the Forbidden City in Beijing by British and Indian troops in August 1900.
