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550 athletes participated in the first commonwealth games
The First World War was in 1914-1918 it was four years long and many soldiers lost their life's.
For US involvement it began at Pearl Harbor where we lost 2,403 soldiers and citizens
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Australian soldiers first arrived in Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. They remained there for about eight months.
The United Kingdom was the first member of the Commonwealth to enter World War 2.
In world war 1 the french lost over 200 soldiers in the first few weeks.
They are poppies and are worn around 11 November by Commonwealth countries to celebrate Remembrance Day, a commemoration of the soldiers who died during the First World War. The poppy is the official "symbol" as thousands of poppies bloomed inexplicably on the ground on which the soldiers died.
In the First World War, about 703,000 UK soldiers died. About 383,000 died in the Second World War.
First Commonwealth Bank was created in 1857.
Cricket was invented by the english, it is mainly played in the commonwealth countries.
The Commonwealth Games did not take place in 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War.
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There were 9 sports in the first commonwealth games
The first Commonwealth Games were held in Hamilton, Canada in 1930.
The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930.
Fiji first participated at the Commonwealth Games in 1938.