Bengal Ambulance Corps

The Bengal Ambulance Corps was established as a Bengali contribution to assist in the First World War. The Bengal Stationary Hospital was opened in the Mesopotamian town of Amara on 7 July 1915 and it remained in operation until 31 May 1916. Many members became prisoners of the Turks after the fall of Kut. Most were only released at the end of the war.

External links

• Bengal Ambulance Corps by Muhammad Lutful Haque. Banglapedia (National Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh)
• Articles by Amitav Ghosh: Extracts from Sisir Sarbadhikari’s Abhi Le Baghdad (On to Baghdad) , which tells of his experiences in the Bengal Ambulance Corps (BAC) in Mesopotamia, and as a prisoner of war, who ended up in Northern Syria, after the fall of Kut. “The reason the story has survived is that one of the Indian prisoners happened to write about his war experiences forty years later. His name was Sisir Sarbadhikari and his book Abhi Le Baghdad (On To Baghdad) appeared in 1958”

The earlier part of the memoir, from joining up in Calcutta to the fall of Kut is described in "On to Baghdad". Scroll to the bottom of the page for part 1

"Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18". It is in 18 parts, in reverse order, consisting of two pages. Scroll to the bottom of this page for part 1. Scroll to the bottom of this page to continue. Retrieved 21 September 2014.