Markers and Headstones Contributes to Historic Restoration of Commonwealth War Graves in Iraq

A family-led initiative brings renewed dignity to a World War veteran’s resting place at Basra War Cemetery BASRA, ...
Hindustan Times

Virtual memorial for Indian soldiers who fought in Iraq’s Basra

It will be launched by CWGC’s director-general Victoria Wallace at the United Service Institution (USI) of India in New Delhi, marking a new emphasis of the organisation on India, where it cares for ...
Daily Mail

Farewell, our fallen heroes: Britain says goodbye after six years in Iraq

One by one, their names echoed out into the stillness. They were proud young men and women once, serving their country or trying their best to rebuild another one. Now they were remembered in the land ...
London Evening Standard

Gordon Brown pays respects to Iraq fallen at Basra wall

Godon and Sarah Brown led the tributes at today's rededication of the Basra Memorial Wall. The wall was built in Basra in 2006, three years after the invasion of Iraq, but has been moved to the ...
ITV

Soldier's mother: Arboretum closure would break hearts

A woman who lost her son in Basra says the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire is too important a place to get rid of, and it would break her heart if it closed. Carol Jones was instrumental ...
London Evening Standard

Iraq war dead memorial re-dedicated

A poignant service has been held to re-dedicate a memorial wall to 179 people who lost their lives in the Iraq war. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader ...
ITV

MP slams funding cuts to National Memorial Arboretum

A Staffordshire MP has criticised a decision by the Ministry of Defence to cut funding to the National Memorial Arboretum, calling it an "embarrassment". A woman who lost her son in Basra says the ...