100 years of WWI: The Singapore mutiny


Loyal subject: Indian Army gunners with howitzers in Jerusalem in 1917. According to the bbc.co.uk, official figures suggest that more than 64,000 Indian soldiers died in WWI, as the Indian Army fought in every major theatre of operations. - US Library of Congress/public domain

Some 800 Indian soldiers rose up against their British officers in a bloody rebellion in the heart of Singapore.

On Feb 15, 1915, the first mutiny of World War I broke out, and it did not happen on the battlefields of Europe.

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