Monuments and Memorials in South Africa - South African Military Memorials and Cemeteries, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Arniston (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: South African military memorials and cemeteries, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Arniston, Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria Forts, Burgersdorp, Delville Wood South African National Memorial, Afrikaans Language Monument, List of heritage sites in South Africa, Horse Memorial, Merensky Library, University of Pretoria, HMS Thames, Arniston, Western Cape, Rhodes Memorial, Gardens Commercial High School, Groot Constantia, National Women's Monument, Shrine of Our Lady of the Cedars, Huguenot Monument, Durban cenotaph, The Owl House, LLandaff Oratory, 1820 Settlers National Monument, Samora Machel Monument, Huguenot Memorial Building, Staatsmodelschool, Chancellor House, Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial, Freedom Park, South African Police Memorial, Dias Cross Memorial, Dutch Corps Monument, Moorddrift Monument, Covenant Monument, Shaka Memorial. Excerpt: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves, and places of commemoration, of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars. The Commission is also responsible for commemorating Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action during the Second World War. The Commission was founded by Fabian Ware and constituted through Royal Charter in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission. The Imperial War Graves Commission amended its name to its present name in 1960. The Commission, as part of its mandate, is responsible for commemorating all Commonwealth war dead individually and equally. To this effect, the war dead are commemorated by name on either a headstone, at an identified site of a burial, or on a memorial. War dead are commemorated in a uniform and equal fashion, irrespective of military o...