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... 7 KB (824 words) - 09:11, 11 February 2024 |
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark... 87 KB (8,893 words) - 16:25, 17 April 2024 |
grave Maqbara Mausoleum Monumental inscription Natural burial Necropolis Premature burial Pyramid Tomb Tophet Tumulus Turn in one's grave War grave Tütüncü... 7 KB (752 words) - 17:00, 7 April 2024 |
The German War Graves Commission (German: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, pronounced [ˈfɔlksbʊnt ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈkʁiːksɡʁɛːbɐˌfyːɐ̯zɔʁɡə] ) is responsible... 21 KB (2,200 words) - 11:37, 10 February 2024 |
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... 45 KB (766 words) - 13:38, 1 May 2024 |
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... 54 KB (5,662 words) - 00:02, 8 April 2024 |
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... 53 KB (5,592 words) - 09:41, 28 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (359 words) - 09:44, 27 September 2023 |
Scapa Flow (section War grave wrecks) 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... 26 KB (3,351 words) - 08:01, 25 February 2024 |
Rookwood Cemetery (section War graves) 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... 23 KB (2,593 words) - 22:44, 27 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (737 words) - 09:55, 16 March 2024 |
The War Graves Photographic Project original aim was to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family memorial... 4 KB (620 words) - 12:42, 27 June 2022 |
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... 14 KB (1,369 words) - 23:00, 23 September 2023 |
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... 10 KB (1,231 words) - 04:33, 27 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (436 words) - 12:37, 14 February 2024 |
concentration. Adjacent to the War Cemetery is the Kranji Military Cemetery, also administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Kranji area... 8 KB (741 words) - 07:41, 20 November 2021 |
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)... 55 KB (7,016 words) - 19:06, 20 February 2024 |
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... 118 KB (11,794 words) - 23:41, 1 May 2024 |
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... 6 KB (670 words) - 03:09, 25 February 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,697 words) - 00:21, 23 January 2024 |
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... 1 KB (98 words) - 05:19, 26 January 2023 |
India Gate (redirect from All India War Memorial) 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... 31 KB (3,261 words) - 11:13, 24 April 2024 |
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... 30 KB (2,929 words) - 04:20, 26 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (657 words) - 05:56, 6 February 2024 |