Black and Asian WWI troops not commemorated due to "pervasive racism", report finds | 5 News

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► They gave their lives fighting for the British Empire, but black and Asian soldiers who died in the First World War were not given the commemoration they deserved.

A report has found, at least 116,000 black and Asian WW1 soldiers were not commemorated by name, and possibly not at all.

"On behalf of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the government, both at the time and today. I want to apologise."

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has apologised and pledged to make amends.

In response to this report, Claire Horton, Director-General of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, said, "We look for those people, we search for their names, we memorialise or commemorate them wherever we can."

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