Evaluate the extent to which nations or groups used the memory of the First World War to advance their political objectives in the period 1918 - 1939 . Document 2: When the existence of the Empire was threatened in 1899 by the Boer offered my services to England, raised a volunteer ambulance corps and served at several military engagements received medals for my service . . . When the war broke out in 1914 between England and Germany, I raised a volunteer ambulance corps in London, staffed by Indians living in London at the time, chiefly students. Its work was acknowledged by the authorities to be valuable. Lastly, in India when a special appeal was made at the war conference in Delhi in by Lord Chelmsford for Indian recruits (to serve in the British armies in the war, struggled at the cost of my health to raise a corps in Kheda until the very end of the war. In all these efforts at service to Britain, I was motivated by the belief that i was possible by such services to gain a status of full equality in the Empire for my countrymen ... But all that hope was shattered. I saw that Britain's reforms in India . only a method of further robbing india of her wealth and of prolonging her servitude. came reluctantly to the conclusion that the British connection had made India more helpless than she ever was before , politically and economically *an armed conflict in southern Africa , which pitted the British colonial authorities against rebellious Boer (Dutch) settlers