article_snippet: A pair of broken and bloodstained spectacles in an Indian museum have shed light on the sacrifice of a volunteer who battled prejudice and racism to serve the country he made he home.
article_snippet: A pair of broken and bloodstained spectacles in an Indian museum were the same glasses that ‘Jon’, as he was called by he English comrades, had worn in a photograph taken at a training camp in Yorkshire.
article_snippet: The catalyst that allowed the tale of Pte Sen’s spectacles to emerge publicly was Dr Santanu Das, a reader in English at King’s College London, who noticed them and some of his other belongings in a museum on a visit to Sen's home town of Chandernagore, some 22 miles north of Kolkata in West Bengal, India.
article_snippet: Poignant: Sen glasses and other belongings were discovered in a museum in India .
article_snippet: ‘I was absolutely stunned when I saw the pair of glasses.
article_snippet: It’s one of the most poignant artefacts I’ve seen –
article_snippet: a material token of the fragility of life at the front. '
highlights_snippet: Pair of glasses found at Indian museum were worn by 'Jon' in a photo .
  
highlights_snippet: Bloodstained spectacles have shed light on the sacrifice of the volunteer .
  