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