Are you talking about the Thorne War memorial?

Because if you are that list those who died in WWI and WWII yes the views on race were different back then, sad history but true...or is this a new memorial?

i meant a memoriol at my childs school for poppy day there were no black solders mentioned also if you can find pictures of black british solders fighting or in general i will eat my hat

I haven't visited the memorial walls here in the US but I believe everyone is mentioned

I agree with issac on this. im an ARMY brat. and i never saw their color other than green. to me they are our troops. i have been many pictures and videos of all colors from around the world fights it is just that their BDUs are all the same and you cant really tell anymore if they are US or British, or other. my brother even has pictures of the men he served with and i had to go back and really look to see what color they were. I saw green.

Different races all wearing the same color....


These are pics of british soldiers


The first one is from static.guim.uk.....

The second one is off of channel 14 news.....

Looks like you need to start salting your hat....

are you saying that it is only Poppy day? (I actually had to google that because I never heard it called that)

Could it be that there are other memorials for this that list everyone???

not yet me thinks, can you find anymore with a bit more of a mixture

me and a friend are searching like mad over net no luck yet i think i may have to eat just a tiny little bit of that hat

Poppy day here is the USA,honors all vets, active duty, or non active.has nothing to do with race...This might be an issue with your school your child go's to..I'm really not sure never heard of such a thing.When we die there is no, race, color..as it should be everyday...

Hello Bridgetjones27
The British Army has made no distinction as to race, creed or colour for the past twenty five years. The only codicil to this is the Ghurka Regt.
The British Army officer corps certainly has no bar to any serving soldier whether black, yellow or pink with polka dots. A soldier is a soldier and the Army, Navy, Air Force and RMC is completely indifferent to the issues of race. I served with Aussies, Kiwis and Jamaican troops in Northern Ireland. Black soldiers have no memorial specifically dedicated to them being black. White soldiers have no memorial specifically dedicated to them. Read between the lines and you will see that The Kings African Rifles had many black soldiers, The New Zealand Army has dedications to the Maori Batt. To imply that the black soldier deserves any more than the white soldier simply demonstrates that you have absolutely no idea of the nature of war nor of the men and women who serve.
Trevor Lloyd Capt. Ret.

Here's a little reading for you....You want a picture of a lot more diversity here's one reason you are not going to find it..


"Data obtained by The Independent shows that the Army is losing ethnic minority recruits nearly 50 per cent faster than the rest of the services. In 2007, the last year for which complete figures are available, the Army lost 6.3 per cent of its black and Asian soldiers, compared to an average of 4.5 per cent.

The latest monthly figures show that the outflow of ethnic minority personnel across all services has risen to 5.2 per cent of all recruits.

One Whitehall defence source said: "Ethnic minority soldiers leaving the forces at a faster rate than others is not the direction we want to be heading in. There has been a big push in recruiting from our black and Asian communities and currently we have the lowest number of people leaving for four years. But it does not look good if we cannot persuade our minority recruits to stay."

Military chiefs can point with some justification to success in recruiting from the minorities. The proportion of non-white personnel in the Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force has risen from 3.5 per cent in 2005 to 6.3 per cent last year. The Army now has 9 per cent of its intake from minorities – comfortably above its target of 5 per cent. The Navy and the Air Force lag behind with 2.7 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively."


Oh and here's another picture...tell your friend to grab a fork

have i ever said we deserve more than the others no have i said we should be included yes i also want to say it is obvious to anyone that were not its not just me who is saying it either. its also obvious that there is distinction between the races and there always will be. in America maybe things are different but i have done my research and its obvious to see the problems. 2 pics were found of any black soldier woo hoo i was so wrong i dont know what i was thinking.

Go eat your hat.

and why are they leaving or not joining up ????

A soldier is a soldier. The fact that he is an Aussie or a Jamaican is immaterial. The fact that he is white or black is immaterial. He serves. That is what is important, except for the codicils on specialist regiments.

you may think that i may think that but the facts are there so ill put the hat on hold untill you can prove different !!!

A white soldier decides not to reup, a black soldier decides not to reup. An Aussie soldier decides not to reup a Jamaican soldier decides not to reup.It is a matter of personal choice. One man sees advantages and opportunities and another does not. It is not about race it is about sdetermining what is the best course of action for one's individual life. To suggest anything else is unjust and unbecoming.

before I say what I'm going to here's another picture



This is of the training going on in Afghanistan.....


Here's what you're not seeing....


currently the army says they have 9% minorities they don't break that down by black, asian, indian, spanish or any other...but let's be conservative for a moment. let's say there is only 9 races included in that 'minority' catorgory...and assuming that it's all split equally that would mean that 1% of the UK's army would be black....meaning 1 in every 100 soldiers is black....I haven't seen a photo anywhere of 100 soldiers together...but the ones I did post were of maybe 20-30 soldiers...yet there is still black soldiers in these photos...you think the photos would be even rarer...but they are not...so this tells me one thing...they are getting their press..and the journalist are going out of the way to make it so. jmo

prove it to yourself and join

There are a lot of soldiers in a lot of Soldier towns throughout the UK. Go and look and ask the soldier if he cares if his comrade is black or pink. Ask him if he cares that the monuments do not specifically mention whether a soldier is black or white. Grow up and ....enough ...this just reeks of your bigotry... Goodnight.