The Lions of London

A speaker says Britain needed the Sikhs twice in a century, and they fought and died wearing turbans. The first immigrants to Britain in the film are soldier survivors of the First World War.

Sikhs were less than 2% of India's population and about 22% of the British forces in that war. They reached the Western Front in August 1914. At Neuve Chapelle, one account says three regiments were cut down, about 80% killed.

Wounded men were brought to Brighton's Royal Pavilion. After the war they were treated as heroes in London. The film says only a handful of Sikh Second World War veterans remain, and that more than 300,000 Sikhs joined the British military in that war.