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Discover the latest updates about our work in the Non-Commemoration programme. 

Research update - Non-Commemorations Programme

Research by the CWGC is the first rigorous effort to account for all those who died serving British and imperial forces in the East Africa Campaign. In this short video Dr George Hay, Official Historian, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission shares the significance behind this research.

New Sierra Leone memorialA new memorial honouring Sierra Leone's First World War Carrier Corps

We recently announced a new memorial honouring the fallen from the Sierra Leone Carrier Corps. The new memorial, designed by Architect Tosin Oshinowo, features a glass prism above the existing 1930s memorial. The design is the first of its kind in our sites, and includes a beacon of light, visible in the night sky from a 5km radius when lit. 

Learn more about our new Sierra Leone memorial

HRH inaugurates the Cape Town memorialHRH The Princess Royal inaugurates our new memorial in Cape Town

Our new memorial in Cape Town honours of the contribution of South African military labourers from the First World War. We were delighted that our President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited South Africa to inaugurate the new site. 

Read more about our Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial 

Cape Town Labour Corps memorialUnveiling a new poem for our Cape Town Labour Corps memorial

Poets Koleka Putuma and Daljit Nagra have collaborated to honour South African Military Labourers from the First World War. Their poem and epitaph were specially commissioned by the CWGC and Royal Society of Literature for our new Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial and expresses the sentiment of loss and retrospective recognition in the context of modern-day South Africa.

Learn more how we commissioned a poem for our new memorial

Keep up-to-date with our work by reading our Annual reviews and progress reports