WWI, Africa

Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI honored with memorial
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial more than 100 years later
Princess Royal says black African servicemen who died for Britain will finally be commemorated
Many of those killed in the First World War had gone unacknowledged with bereaved relatives given little or no information about their fate
Princess Anne honors legacy of black South African WWI heroes
Black South African servicemen who lost their lives in non-combat roles while serving on the Allied side during World War I, and whose final resting places remain unknown, have been honored with a memorial that lists 1,
Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial more than 100 years later
South Africa's WW1 servicemen finally honoured at new memorial
Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 men worked in dangerous and gruelling non-combatant roles in East Africa but until now,
After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial
While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen's contributions were ignored for decades.
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