Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 16 November 2017.
Bill Wiggin
Chair, Committee of Selection, Chair, Committee of Selection, Chair, Committee of Selection, Chair, Committee of Selection
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to commemorate the Battle of Beersheba in 1917.
John Glen
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
While the Government has not commemorated the centenary of the Battle of Beersheba with a specific event, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Israel and the Chief of the Air Staff attended a commemoration to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October 2017, at the Commonwealth War Graves Beersheba War Cemetery in Be’er Sheva, Israel.
Yes4 people think so
No2 people think not
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