The Royal British Legion has launched a website to remember those folks from throughout the British Empire who lost their lives in WWI. The site is entitled Every Man Remembered. Following is a teaser from an article posted in the July 27, 2014 edition of the BBC website.
The Royal British Legion has started an online campaign to gather tributes to every Commonwealth serviceman and woman who died in World War One.
A total of 1,117,077 service personnel from what was then the British Empire died in the war, which began in 1914.
The Every Man Remembered database allows people to commemorate relatives or someone they knew, or find a person for whom no-one has yet left a tribute.
The legion called it the “greatest act of remembrance” to mark the centenary.
The people being remembered came from the UK and numerous parts of the British Empire – from which the Commonwealth emerged – including Africa, Australia, India and the West Indies.
