9,909 Indian World War I Soldiers Added to CWGC Records

### Why in News? - The **Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)** added **9,909 Indian First World War soldiers** to its official casualty database. ### Key Details - The update followed research into historic records associated with the **Lahore Museum** and soldiers from undivided Punjab. - Many of these servicemen had not been individually commemorated in the Commission’s earlier records because of colonial-era recordkeeping practices. - The addition represents one of the largest corrections to Commonwealth war-casualty records in decades. ### Exam Connect - **CWGC** → Organisation responsible for commemorating Commonwealth military personnel who died in the two World Wars.