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Multicultural Cumbria reacts to Commonwealth War Graves Committee's apology


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. ....

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Scandal of unequal commemoration of UK's WW1 dead known about 'for years'


Scandal of unequal commemoration of UK’s WW1 dead known about ‘for years’
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The failure to properly commemorate hundreds of thousands of black and Asian troops who died fighting for the British empire has been known about for years, the head of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has acknowledged.
Claire Horton, the commission’s director general, acknowledged that research revealing black and Asian soldiers had not been equally commemorated had been in the public domain for years. The commission had only taken steps to address the imbalance following a 2019 documentary featuring Labour MP David Lammy. ....

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'Scandal' of Britain's 350,000 forgotten black and Asian war heroes


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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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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