Britain is looking to finally acknowledge the brave foreign heroes that fought during WWI
This week, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWCG) published a report that sought to understand why tens of thousands of black and Asian recruits who died in the First World War had not been suitably honoured.
The report found that at least 116,000 non-white casualties from the war “were not commemorated properly or not commemorated at all.” The overriding reason, it concluded, was the “entrenched prejudices, preconceptions, and pervasive racism” of the time.
The CWGC was founded over a hundred years ago in the aftermath of WWI as the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC). Its mandate then, as it is now, was to care for all of those Imperial and later Commonwealth personnel who perished in the war, and later in subsequent conflicts, equally and individually.
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