A group of Sikhs have travelled to battlefields where members of their community fought in World War I. BBC Asian Network's Poonam Taneja joined them.
The location is the quaint French town of Neuve-Chapelle and a gathering of Sikhs surrounds a stone podium as prayers are recited in Punjabi.
The Sikhs are from Britain and they are on a journey across battlefields in northern France and Belgium to honour Indian soldiers who died fighting for Britain in World War I.
The Indian Army fought in every major theatre of operations during the war and around 65,000 Indian fighters were killed.
In Neuve-Chapelle, Indian soldiers under British command were part of two Allied divisions that fought the Germans in 1915.
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