ASHT to host European Premiere of The Prisoners Song Date: Friday, 11 September, 2009

Heritage Shared 2009

A Gripping Story of Sacrifice, Suffering, and Ongoing Injustice

In 1916 German scientists made an 80-second audio recording of a Sikh soldier captured at the Battle of Flanders during WWI. The starving soldier, Mal Singh, yearns to return to his home in the Punjab, the "land of butter and milk."

Retired Indian Colonel Perminder Singh Randhawa reflects on Mal Singh's fate, and locates his descendants still living in the ancestral village, and hoping to receive his long-forgotten pension.

A film by Michael Singh, presented by ASHT.

See the promo on You Tube

FREE Screening at National Army Museum, London on Saturday 12th September 2pm

For further information email events@asht.info or call 0845 600 1893

Part of Heritage Shared 2009: A season of events presented by the Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail.