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the 1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors for the first time?
the Singapore Declaration , one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations , is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?
the Paradesi Synagogue , built by the Malabar Yehudan people, is the oldest synagogue in the British Commonwealth of nations ?
the Bayeux War Cemetery , the largest for World War II Commonwealth soldiers, includes the Bayeux Memorial, honoring more than 1,800 soldiers killed in the Normandy Landings with no known grave?
Wee Chong Jin , one of the former judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore , was the longest-serving Chief Justice of Singapore and of a Commonwealth country, having held the post for over 27 years?
HMAS Sydney (pictured) was the first aircraft carrier owned by a British Commonwealth nation to serve in combat?
Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls is the only member of the Coldstream Guards to have won the George Cross , the highest civil decoration of the Commonwealth of Nations ?
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