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 featuring 1,772 names. An inscription on ...

Some of the iroko posts engraved with the names of previously unrecognised Black non-combatant servicemen who died in Africa during World War I [Courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

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 featuring 1,772 names. An inscription ...

African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in World War I and have no known grave, in Cape Town ...

1,772 Black Servicemen Who Died in WWI Were Ignored in South Africa. at Last They Are Being Honored CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set ...