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Goans in World War I

East African Goans in the World War I As the world marks the centenary of the end of World War I, we turn our thoughts to Goans who fought in it. My thanks to Cliff Pereira for this extensive piece of research, which will soon be updated, and is a fitting piece of history for the occasion. Source acknowledgements have been deleted due to a glitch however I have a PDF with the info. By Clifford J Pereira FRGS Independent Historical Researcher, Curator, Museum Consultant and lecturer. Pereira holds a BA(Hons) in Geography with Asian Studies. As fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) he turned to research in 2001 on a variety of themes leading to an exhibition on the Bombay Africans (2007). Pereira was Visiting Research Assistant to Dalian Maritime University, China (2011-2015). He was Researcher-Curator on the Bait-Jelmood Museum, Qatar (2013-2016) and for the National Museum of Qatar (2016-2018). Pereira was awarded Honorary Research Associate of the Univer...