A war memorial at a world-renowned British institution will add soldiers who fought against Britain in World War One.
The plan - proposed by Oxford University's Queens' College - seeks to remember all those that died during the war “irrespective of nationality”.
Currently, the college memorial includes a list of 121 soldiers who backed the Allies, leaving out five other soldiers who did not - three of whom were German.
The planning application has argued that the move was “justified by the need to remember all members of the college community who died”.
Reform's deputy leader has hit out at the 'wokery'
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The soldiers who will be included are Germans Carl Heinrich Hertz and Gustav Adolf Jacobi and Colmar-born Erich Joachim Peucer - as well as Hungarian Paul Nicholas Esterházy and Emile Jacot.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has hit out at the “wokery”, declaring that only those who fended off the enemy forces should be remembered.
He told The Telegraph: “War memorials in the UK should be to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect and defend the Allied nations.
“Where will this wokery end?”
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Oxford City Council is expected to review the planning application in the coming weeks.
As it stands, the planning application reads: “The First World War memorial outside the library omits those who did not serve on the British side.
“This was usual at the time the memorial was erected (1921): no colleges, when they first put up their memorials, commemorated those who died fighting against the Allies, whether as a deliberate decision or because it did not occur to them.
“In summary, we feel that these proposals are an appropriate and unobtrusive response to the architectural context and are justified by the need to remember all members of the college community who died in the First World War, irrespective of nationality.”
Oxford City Council is expected to review the planning application from the university's college in the coming weeks
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Approximately 14,561 students who were enrolled at the university went to war - around a fifth of whom are believed to have died by 1918.
The college of Corpus Christi suffered the worst loss of them all as it is estimated that around a quarter of those who enlisted died.
Fifteen of those casualties earned an order, including two Victoria Crosses.
GB News has contacted the University of Oxford for comment.
