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Tens of thousands of predominantly black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire were not properly commemorated due to pervasive racism , a report has said.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission apologised after it found individuals were not formally remembered in the same way as white troops. The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now, it said.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will address MPs about the findings later.
The inquiry found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all .
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An investigation has blamed pervasive racism for the failure to properly commemorate at least 116,000 but up to 350,000 people who died fighting for the British Empire.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has apologised and vowed to act immediately to correct the situation.
The report, obtained by the PA news agency and due to be published in full later today, found that the casualties - mainly from the First World War - were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all .
Many of the dead were not commemorated at all, the report has found. Credit: PA
Up to 350,000 predominantly black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire were not properly commemorated due to pervasive racism , a report has found.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has apologised, saying: “The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now , after its investigation found that those individuals were not formally remembered in the same way as their white comrades.
The investigation discovered at least 116,000 predominantly African and Middle Eastern First World War casualties “were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all”.