By Press Association 2021
Raj Pal and his uncle Tarlok Singh, who achieved the rank of captain fighting in Burma in the Second World War (Raj Pal/PA)
The descendants of black and Asian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire have called for more to be done to put right failures to commemorate their sacrifice – including a change to the national curriculum.
It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered “an unreserved apology” after a new investigation found “pervasive racism” underpinned the failure by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to formally remember potentially hundreds of thousands of non-white individuals.
Relatives of black and Asian war dead call for change to national curriculum
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