{"id":249410,"date":"2023-06-24T20:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=249410"},"modified":"2023-06-24T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:46:51","slug":"pm-in-egypt-what-is-the-heliopolis-memorial-for-indian-soldiers-who-fought-in-world-war-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-in-egypt-what-is-the-heliopolis-memorial-for-indian-soldiers-who-fought-in-world-war-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PM in Egypt: What is the Heliopolis Memorial for Indian soldiers who fought in World War 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cPM in Egypt: What is the Heliopolis Memorial for Indian soldiers who fought in World War 1?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on <b>23rd June 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Prime Minister will pay his respects at the Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial in the Heliopolis War Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Heliopolis Memorial?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial is part of the larger Heliopolis Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This memorial commemorates the memory of 3,727 Indian soldiers who died fighting in various campaigns in Egypt and Palestine in the First World War.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was the role of the Indian Army in West Asia in the First World War?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian troops of the expeditionary forces sent from India played a major role in West Asia in the First World War.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian troops played a key role in securing the Suez Canal in Egypt and in Palestine, where Indian cavalry participated in the Battle of Haifa, commemorated in New Delhi in a war memorial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian soldiers also played a key role in Mesopotamia in the First World War.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPM in Egypt: What is the Heliopolis Memorial for Indian soldiers who fought in World War 1?\u201d published in Indian Express on 23rd June 2023 What is the News?\u00a0 The Indian Prime Minister will pay his respects at the Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial in the Heliopolis War&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-in-egypt-what-is-the-heliopolis-memorial-for-indian-soldiers-who-fought-in-world-war-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM in Egypt: What is the Heliopolis Memorial for Indian soldiers who fought in World War 1?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-249410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699955979},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}