I wonder why the CWGC doesn't record post-WW2 deaths. And shouldn't the names of the British police officers who were killed or died in Cyprus be equally remembered? Perhaps officialdom would prefer some conflicts to be forgotten. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5183952/The-forgotten-soldiers-buried-in-no-mans-land.html http://www.policememorial.org.uk/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=114&cntnt01returnid=62 http://www.westmerciapolfed.co.uk/cyprus-police-memorial/ http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/cyprusemergency.htm The plaque below is in Hereford Police Station.
The Armed Forces Memorial, like CWGC is also searchable online. Three men named in the Telegraph article are listed on it. http://www.thenma.org.uk/about-us/armed-forces-memorial/the-names/ https://www.gov.uk/search-armed-forces-memorial-roll-of-honour
As the C in CWGC means Commonwealth can you imagine how much more it would cost to run if they had to commemorate the Korean War dead , the Australians in Vietnam ,the Indo-Pakistan War, Nigerians in Biafra and lots of other wars , police actions involving Commonwealth countries I can't remember.
The CWGC has started to record Polish personnel who died in the WW2 period and are interred in UK, presumably Commonwealth too, cemeteries, seems a shame they're doing that before recording UK post-war casualties. Just my opinion.
Is that not because they have reciprocal agreements with many countries about maintenance of graves in UK / abroad? I'm sure that Geoff highlighted the fact that CWGC already had records of foreign graves under their care, but did not previously put them online. I stand to be corrected on this. I don't see why you think CWGC should be responsible, essentially 'doubling up' the commemoration work which AFM is already doing.
I found one post from 2009, showing that CWGC records already existed for graves under their care, but which were then not accessible online via their site. So I don't believe the data or the work related to it is new, it's simply now been made public on their website.
Correct. The records would have existed on paper from the time of burial. (due to a software bug, I was able to see these records on their on-line data, around 2005-7). Most of the records are now available on line. Some countries did not give permission however. My (other) search engine (NTSE) was removed as I was asked to remove access to nationalities where permission to publish was not given. Rather than mess around with the filtering, I removed it. It is all on CWGC now - with many corrections - for example quite a few German dead buried in UK were listed as Army, when they were shot down airmen.
According to 'Geoff's Search Engine' (not to be trusted, may have errors!) the foreign national dead in the care of CWGC are as below. There are also some pre WW1 (some in 1800s) and post WW2 (some in 1970s) UK nationality graves in various places. Also seem to be some civilian family members of UK military personel in their cemeteries. Non world war data will probably never (?) be online. WW1 TURKISH 564 RUSSIAN 622 AMERICAN 44 FRENCH 6085 BELGIAN 356 GERMAN 10751 PORTUGUESE 14 SPANISH 1 AUSTRIAN 105 BULGARIAN 225 ITALIAN 18 GREEK 72 DANISH 1 BRAZILIAN 8 DUTCH 3 SERBIAN 48 HUNGARIAN 6 JAPANESE 68 ROMANIAN 19 POLISH 1 FINNISH 1 =========== Total 19012 WW2 POLISH 4421 ITALIAN 626 GERMAN 6299 DUTCH 3831 NORWEGIAN 225 FRENCH 780 AMERICAN 14 BELGIAN 330 CZECHOSLOVAKIAN 2 GREEK 332 ARAB 1 YUGOSLAVIAN 4 CHINESE 1 JAPANESE 1 SWEDISH 2 TURKISH 14 RUSSIAN 1 FINNISH 1 AUSTRIAN 2 =========== Total 16887
Returning to the original topic, there is a Cyprus Police Association for those who served there.They may well have their own lists etc of their dead.
Quick update on my last post. If you go to www.policememorial.org.uk and click on the Cyprus Police Memorial section you can read the sorry tale of why there is no memorial in this country.