Participating in the Centenary of the Armistice debate, Slough MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi deeply acknowledged and appreciated the role played by men and women from various parts of the Commonwealth who laid down their lives during the World War I.

He made a significant reference to how the film medium had too few black and brown faces, “as if they were not there” despite the thousands who were killed during the World Wars.

It was interesting to listen to the measured speech of the first Sikh turbaned Member of Parliament from Slough constituency, who has pioneered the campaign for a National Sikh War Memorial in Central London had also  intervened in the Centenary of the Armistice Debate in the British House of Commons and thanked the Labour Party Deputy Leader Tom Watson for his support for The National Sikh War Memorial Trust campaign in Central London.

At the same time, in the same breath, he congratulated local communities for installing memorials all across the United Kingdom from Gravesend to Coventry, Arboretum and in Smethwick.

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The Centenary of the Armistice was signed at 5:00am on 11th November 1918 and came into effect five hours later, bringing about the cessation of hostilities in the First World War, but technically, not a German surrender. One hundred years ago, the four bloody years of brutal conflict came to an end.

London, 7 November 2018, WSN News Bureau