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<p>In April 2021, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) published its Special
Committee’s report into historical inequalities in commemoration. The CWGC continues
to make good progress against the report’s ten recommendations. Documents recently
discovered by the CWGC’s dedicated research team put the number of personnel from
the Egyptian Labour and the Camel Transport Corps who lost their lives in the Middle
East during the First World War at just over 15,550. Very few of these were known
to have marked graves and the names of the majority were, and are, unknown to the
CWGC.</p><p> </p><p>Although one aspect of the CWGC’s response to the report is to
search for missing burials (and where they can be located and marked, they will be),
the CWGC is initially focused on the discovery of names so that individuals’ service
and sacrifice can be properly recorded and acknowledged. The CWGC have established
that records and named lists of Egyptian personnel were passed by the British Armed
Forces to the then Egyptian authorities so that pensions and compensation could be
paid. The CWGC hope that these records might yet be found in Egyptian archival collections
and the CWGC is making progress in tracking these records down.</p>
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