South Africa's WW1 servicemen finally honoured at new memorial

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

More than 1,700 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 more than 100 years later
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