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A girl places a bunch of flowers at the War Cemetery at Nandambakkam in Chennai on Wednesday. — Photo: S. R. Raghunathan
CHENNAI, NOV. 10. Indian and Commonwealth soldiers who lost their lives in the two World Wars were remembered at a ceremony in the city on Wednesday. It was held at the War Cemetery at Nandambakkam by the British Deputy High Commission, in association with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Chennai. The British Deputy High Commissioner, Stuarts Innes; the United States Consul-General for South India, Richard D. Haynes, and representatives from the Russian and Singapore diplomatic missions, laid wreaths at the memorial. The Last Post was sounded and a two-minute silence observed. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by a Royal Charter in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission, and assumed its current functions and name by a supplemental charter in 1964. It's responsibilities are to mark and maintain the graves of those members of Commonwealth armed forces who died in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known graves, and to keep and make available to the public records and registers of burials, as well as of civilians killed by enemy action during the Second World War. India is one of the six Commonwealth member-countries, the others being Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Many Indians who served in the Indian and British Army and Merchant Navies were either lost or killed in the two wars and their names are commemorated at the memorial. Around 1,60,000 soldiers laid down their lives during these wars.
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