Time for a bit more history.
Over at Foreign Policy in Focus, columnist Kwei Quartey has penned a useful article on West Africa`s role in the Allied war effort during World War Two. His artticle can be found here ;
Kwei Quartey - How West Africa Helped Win World War Two - www.fpif.org/articles , 6 June 2012
I`d like to address this subject in a little more detail at some point, so it`s something I may return to in future.
For the moment I`d just like to mention that there was no conscription in the Commonwealth
during World War Two, so the Empire/Commonwealth forces were all volunteers.
The other thing I`d like to mention is that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission exists to "commemorate the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars". It maintains cemteries, memorials and burial plots and provides various services such as a register of Commonwealth war dead so that graves or names on memorials can be located.
To find out more, visit this site ;
www.cwgc.org .
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