The 14th Sikhs were at Gallipoli. In the Third Battle of Krithia on 4 June 1915 the battalion lost around 380 of 514 men in a single action, and the divisional commander's report on it is one of the more striking documents of the campaign.
The Mesopotamia campaign was fought largely by Indian troops and a very large proportion were Punjabi. The siege of Kut, from December 1915 to April 1916, ended in the surrender of about 13,000 men, most of them Indian, of whom a large number died in captivity on the march to Anatolia and in the camps.
The advance to Baghdad in 1917 and the campaign to the war's end were conducted by the same force.
Basra, Kut, Ctesiphon, Baghdad and Sharqat are battle honours on Punjabi regimental colours.
The Basra Memorial records the Indian dead of the campaign with no known grave. It was moved in the 1990s to a site in a former battlefield and is effectively inaccessible.
More Punjabis died in Iraq in the First World War than in any other theatre and there is no memorial to them in Punjab.
Punjabi units were at Gallipoli in 1915 and in Mesopotamia through the whole campaign, including the siege of Kut, where an Indian division surrendered after five months.
The prisoners taken at Kut were marched across Anatolia and a large proportion died on the way. The Punjabi families who lost men there were never told how.
The Basra memorial carries the names of the missing. Like Neuve-Chapelle it lists village and district, and like Neuve-Chapelle nobody in Punjab has worked through it.