After convalescing from an injury, he was sent off to the Middle Eastern Front where he fought in the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917. In 1916, he was in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme. Incredibly, Karkaria saw action on three major fronts in the next three years. Passing through China, Manchuria, Siberia, Russia and Scandinavia, he reached London early in 1915 and managed to register as a private with the 24th Middlesex Regiment.
After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air, he decided to volunteer for the British Army. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that.
Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. Amazing! An astonishing find! - AMITAV GHOSH
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