Battle of Beersheba: Anniversaries
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
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.
This question was answered on 16th November 2017
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.