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Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world war<\/p>\n

British Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for \u201cfuture generations\u201d as data reveals half the British public don\u2019t know that Indian members of the armed forces served in the second world war.<\/p>\n

The My Family Legacy <\/a>project, backed by the Royal British Legion, is building an online archive of Asian veterans\u2019 experiences to raise awareness of the shared histories and sacrifices<\/a> of Britain\u2019s diverse communities.<\/p>\n

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Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world warBritish Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for \u201cfuture generations\u201d as …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1473,62,938,241,60,3441,220,61,674,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-commonwealth-of-nations","category-india","category-military","category-nepal","category-pakistan","category-remembrance-day","category-second-world-war","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75089\/revisions\/75090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}