A Punjab village of any size has a memorial. It is usually a plaque or a gate, sometimes a small structure, sometimes only an inscription on the gurdwara wall.
The names on them are from the First World War, the Second, 1947 to 1948, 1962, 1965, 1971, Kargil and the counter-insurgency years, and often they are on the same wall.
Depur in Hoshiarpur district recorded that 152 men went to the First World War and seven did not come back, and gave no names. Badduwal in Moga sent twenty-six and lost seven, and five names were recovered by one man over twenty-two years of work.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission registers hold the names of the First and Second World War dead by regiment, with father's name and village, in spellings made by British clerks.
Matching a village memorial to those registers is possible and laborious and produces names that no one in the village has known for a century.
There is no reason it could not be done for every village in Punjab, and it has been done for one.
The spellings are the difficulty. A clerk wrote down what he heard, so one village turns up as four different names across the registers and one man's father under three. Matching has to work inward from the regiment and the district rather than outward from the name.
The registers are searchable online and they are free. Anybody with a village name, a regiment and an afternoon can pull out a list. The reason it has not been done for Punjab is not that it is hard, it is that nobody has decided it is their job.
A village that lost twenty men in one war is not unusual in the Doaba or the Majha. What is unusual is a village that can tell you who any of them were.