The Bayeux Memorial bears the names of 1,800 men from Commonwealth land forces who died during intense fighting during the advance into Normandy and have no known grave.
The siege of Tantallon was also interesting in that the Commonwealth land forces were supported by the Commonwealth Navy.
"This event was taking place on Commonwealth land... the [National Capital Authority] don't have the power to directly stop the pill testing trial, but what they can do is indicate to the promoter that they won't give an approval for the event if pill testing is taking place, and we think that's what has occurred".
In its media release, Harm Reduction Australia also hinted to this noting that "the comments made by ACT Shadow Minister for Health, Vicki Dunne, that the Spilt Milk Festival is on Commonwealth land and that the Commonwealth Government will ensure that pill testing will not occur are telling".
A hundred years ago, the men who joined the British army during World War I came by the millions -- from England, of course, but also from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa and other then-Commonwealth lands.
Migrants were often selected on the basis of their willingness to work on the land; state and Commonwealth governments concentrated their investment on rural development and encouraged returned servicemen to take up farms on the periphery of settled areas.
Van Diemen's Land, (1642 1855), the southeastern Australian island colony that became the commonwealth state of Tasmania.
In fact, Australia is the only Commonwealth country without one.
Cricket allows Pakistanis to play against men from other faiths and lands, and to belong with pride to a sporting commonwealth of cricket-playing nations that is a world away from the aridity of the ummah.
It's called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, and it looks as epic as it sounds: an installation at the Tower of London fills the moat of the medieval castle with 888,246 ceramic poppies, each one representing a British or Commonwealth death during World War I. Yet this memorial is temporary.
WHEREAS, the ownership rights of Virginia to lands now known as Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina are and remain uncontested and true; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert McDonnell, do hereby recognize May 2010 as NAZI HISTORY MONTH in our COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, and I call this observance to the attention of all our citizens.
