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    MUSEUMS & EVENTS

    Nov 01, 2018 3 minutes

    BRISTOL’S TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN

    THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION IS CURRENTLY RUNNING A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION, ‘AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN’, TO COMMEMORATE THE LOCAL CASUALTIES OF THE TWO WORLD WARS

    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states. Its principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and commemorative places of the 1.7 million Commonwealth military personnel who died during the two world wars.

    ‘At the Going Down of the Sun’ is a photography exhibition commissioned by the CWGC that remembers people who

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