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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gerald Imray

Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial

South Africa WWI Black Servicemen - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried.

But their names, forgotten for more than a century, have been revived and are now written in the records of history.

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