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To avoid confusion with other Indian Labour Corps units serving in Mesopotamia at that time, these companies were numbered as the 35th , 36th , 37th and 38th (Naga) Labour Companies. The men of the Naga Labour Corps worked in various places around France on salvage work, road repair and other duties. "One can hardly imagine the feelings that the Naga Labour Corps must have felt, leaving their homeland for the first time and crossing oceans to distant lands fighting for the Crown. GUWAHATI: Nagaland chief minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu on Friday unveiled a monolith in Kohima dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Naga Labour Corps joining the British force in France and North African battlefronts in World War I. "Men who returned from France formed a socio-political association called the Naga Club with branches in Kohima and Mokokchung immediately after their return in 1918..