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Historian speaks out after 350,000 Black and Asian war heroes forgotten
As many as 350,000 people of colour were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all, a report has found
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A historian has said 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 . ....

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