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Fabian Ware wanted to create dignified resting places for British war dead. But he found himself embattled by society ladies, arguing over headstones and needing a rescue from Winston Churchill.
World War II veterans, on the 50th anniversary commemorations of their war in 1993, remembered and articulated, many for the first time, what they had experienced. Unlike the Vietnam vets, WWII vets were honored when they came home, but what they had...
The failure to commemorate black and Asian soldiers was an inexcusable betrayal Prejudice played a large part in the failure to mark the sacrifices of men who died for Britain. 22 April 2021 • 10:00pm Two members of Kenya's Military Police walk past graves as they leave after attending a Remembrance Sunday event in 2016. Credit: Ben Curtis Yesterday, Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, expressed “deep regret” at the unequal commemoration of soldiers who died in the First World War. An “imperial ideology”, he said, resulted in up to 350,000 black and Asian soldiers not being commem...