Congratulations to the Australia India Institute for this celebration.
The Australia India Institute has celebrated the untold history of the ANZAC-India relationship formed at Gallipoli in 1915.
Serving alongside the ANZACs for their entire campaign were troops of Britain’s Indian Army – gunners and drivers of two Indian mountain batteries. An Indian infantry brigade and a large Supply and Transport force soon joined them, with over 16,000 Indians serving on Gallipoli.
The Institute hosted the untold story of the Anzac-India friendship, with one of Australia’s most distinguished military social historians Professor Peter Stanley.
He shared the role Indian troops played and the remarkable positive relationship that grew at Gallipoli between Anzacs and Indians.
Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts and Indian Consul General Melbourne Dr. Sushil Kumar, were part of this significant event. Indian Veterans who attended.
As part of this celebration of this unrecognised history, Mark Trayling presented the Bahadur painting to the Institute. The Bahadur painting was painted-by-mouth by Mr Ghosh, a resident of the Paraplegic Centre for Armed Forces in Pune, India.
Into India 