Readers wishing to commemorate black and Asian soldiers might head to the Memorial Gates, near Hyde Park Corner in London, on Remembrance Day. The Gates remember the 5 million volunteers from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean who served in the two world wars, including Khudadad Khan, a recipient of the Victoria Cross (Push for black and Asian soldiers’ input in world wars to be taught in UK schools, 30 October). The contributions of 17 of these veterans are told in the schools pack We Also Served, published to coincide with the opening of the memorial in 2002.
Dr John Hopkin
Birmingham
On the island of Lemnos, in the Gallipoli war cemetery, the Muslim soldiers, and the ashes of the Hindu soldiers, interred according to their faiths, are named and honoured. Above Brighton, on the Downs, the Chattri memorial remembers the soldiers of the Indian regiments who died in local hospitals. They were cared for by local people and their ashes scattered where the monument now stands. Britain did and still does respect and remember them (Letters, 5 November).
Chris Hardy
West Wittering, West Sussex
