Sayed Jaffer Gulamhussein.

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Rededication services took place for Lieutenant Norman Frederick Hunter and Serjeant George Goodson Moore DCM at our Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres and for Private George Hall at our Vichte Military Cemetery near Kortrijk. All three men had been listed as missing and were commemorated on either the Menin Gate Memorial or Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing. Their final resting places were identified thanks to research by a dedicated member of the public submitted to us and confirmed after additional research by our colleagues, MOD (JCCC) and National Army Museum. "More than a century after their deaths, we are honoured to have played a part in identifying the resting places of these three men and installing headstones that now bear their names. George Hall, Norman Frederick Hunter and George Goodson Moore were husbands, brothers and sons. They came from different backgrounds and lived different lives, yet they were united by their common sacrifice. Today’s rededication services are a poignant reminder of the human cost of war and offer a moving moment of reflection during this national period of remembrance." Polly Brewster, Case Officer for our Commemorations team. Photos: Crown Copyright and Eric Compernolle

During the First World War, many Sierra Leoneans served alongside British and Imperial forces in the campaigns in Togoland, the Cameroons, and Mesopotamia both as soldiers and in vital transport and labour roles. This Remembrance Sunday, our colleagues joined Rich Hills, Director of Commemorations, at the Freetown Memorial to take part in the national act of Remembrance. Together with Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, we unveiled a ‘Start of Work’ banner for the upcoming new Freetown Memorial.

Do you know that we are building a new memorial in Sierra Leone? The Freetown memorial, designed by Lagos-based Oshinowo Studio, will be the first of our sites to integrate a beacon of light, which will shine a beam visible in the night sky from a 5km radius when lit. Tosin Oshinowo is the first woman and the first West African architect to design a memorial for us. “Honouring the past, shaping the future, our design for the Freetown memorial stands not only as a tribute to the fallen, those who lost their lives during the First World War, but as a symbol of Sierra Leoneans’ collective commemoration, representing cost of war and a people's resilience, as well as the global commitment to peace for generations to come.” Architect Tosin Oshinowo. #WorldArchitectureDay