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    A war grave is a burial place for members of the armed forces or civilians who died during military campaigns or operations. The term "war grave" does...
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    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark...
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    grave Maqbara Mausoleum Monumental inscription Natural burial Necropolis Premature burial Pyramid Tomb Tophet Tumulus Turn in one's grave War grave Tütüncü...
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  • The German War Graves Commission (German: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, pronounced [ˈfɔlksbʊnt ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈkʁiːksɡʁɛːbɐˌfyːɐ̯zɔʁɡə] ) is responsible...
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  • known graves of the staff who died in service or who were eligible for headstones of the Imperial War Graves Commission & Commonwealth War Graves Commission...
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  • Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Japanese animated war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and...
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    quickly for sanitation concerns. Although mass graves can be used during major conflicts such as war and crime, in modern times they may be used after...
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    Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has revised the military casualty statistics of the UK and its allies; they include in their listing of military war dead...
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    Retrieved 2015-06-23. "Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2014-2015 p. 38". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 24 May 2016.Figures...
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  • The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) is a branch within the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs. The branch was initially a stand-alone...
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    wreck is now a protected war grave. John Gunther in December 1939 called the attack "the single most extraordinary feat of the war so far". Three days after...
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    registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 435 from World War I and 274 from World War II, besides three Dutch war graves. The commission also erected...
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    War Graves Commission Cemetery is a war cemetery which was built and is looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The war graves...
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  • The War Graves Photographic Project original aim was to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family memorial...
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    war cemeteries, graves and their associated memorials were typically placed under the control of a central state authority. The Imperial War Graves Commission...
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    Tyne Cot (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Belgium)
    Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in...
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    La Cambe is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha, and 25.5 km (15.8 mi) north west...
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    organisations such as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the German War Graves Commission, and Le Souvenir français...
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    Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial (category World War II memorials)
    Second World War American military war grave cemetery, located in Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The cemetery, containing 5,074 American war dead, covers...
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    during the war. In addition to the Commonwealth burials, there are 466 graves of German soldiers. The cemetery contains the Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross...
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    concentration. Adjacent to the War Cemetery is the Kranji Military Cemetery, also administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Kranji area...
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    Cross of Sacrifice (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
    Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)...
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    War Graves Commission Annual Report 2005–2006 is the source of total military dead. Totals include 702 military deaths during 1919–21. The 1922 War Office...
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    Lone Pine Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War I in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey...
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    were repatriated. There are 1,896 Dutch war graves, 5,085 Commonwealth graves and one non-war grave. Two graves contain the ashes of 300 men who were cremated...
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    Known unto God (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
    War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemeteries. The phrase was selected by British poet Rudyard Kipling who worked for what was then the Imperial War Graves...
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    The Argenta War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is found in the Commune of Argenta, Ferrara, Italy. The town of Argenta is located...
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    of the Imperial War Graves Commission and one of Europe's foremost designers of war graves and memorials. He designed sixty-six war memorials in Europe...
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  • War discography War dove War economy War effort War elephant War emergency power War film War finance War flag War college War grave War hammer War hawk...
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    comrades' grave contains 24,917 servicemen, including the World War I flying ace Werner Voss. Between the oak trees, next to this mass grave, are another...
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