Multicultural Cumbria was dissapointed by the Commonwealth War Graves Committee s Special Commission report findings that hundreds of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers remain unmemorialised A CUMBRIAN charity has expressed disappointment in the failure to recognise tens of thousands of Commonwealth troops who died fighting for the British Empire in the First World War. A recent report, produced by a special committee formed to review historical cases of non-commemoration, found that 116,000, and potentially 350,000, of those who died while serving the then British Empire during the First World War remained without a memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) issued an apology after the findings were released.
Scandal of Britain s 350,000 forgotten black and Asian war heroes
Report find people of colour who died for Britain were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all
09:14, 22 APR 2021
David Olusoga (Image: Michael Lloyd)
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice The failure to properly commemorate potentially hundreds of thousands of predominantly black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire is “one of the biggest scandals I’ve ever come across , a historian has said.
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