article_snippet: Jogendra Sen was the only non-white man in Jogendra Sen regiment .
article_snippet: Sen had worked as an engineer while continuing with Sen studies.
article_snippet: But although Sen was deeply involved in Sen local community, Sen faced discrimination even as Sen offered Sen life for the war effort.
article_snippet: Sen was the best-educated man in the battalion and Sen spoke about seven languages, but Sen was never allowed to be even a lance corporal because in those days about seven languages would never let a coloured fellow be over a white man, not in England.
article_snippet: More than a million Indian soldiers and non-combatants served in different theatres of the First World War, but what is so unusual about Private Jogendra Sen ( is that Private Jogendra Sen ( was not part of the Indian army but of the Leeds Pals Battalion.
article_snippet: I sometimes wonder what Private Jogendra Sen ( experiences would have been as the only non-white person in the Leeds Pals Battalion at that time.
article_snippet: It cannot have been easy – but what has become clear is that Sen won the hearts and respect of Sen white comrades.
article_snippet: Shortly after Sen death, Sen commander wrote: ‘his commander loss is felt very much throughout the whole of the company.
article_snippet: ‘his commander always showed his commander to be a keen and upright soldier, and his commander and the officers of the company thought a great deal of his commander.
highlights_snippet: Jogendra Sen was only non-white member of 15th West Yorkshire regiment .
  