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Feb 21, 2020 · The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Centre (CWGC) opened a new centre in Beaurains just south of Arras in Pas-de-Calais in the summer of 2019. It’s a major attraction where you can go ‘behind the scenes’. CWGC Experience Entrance. You’ve probably seen a few of the cemeteries and memorials that the CWGC maintains, but have you ever ...
3 days ago · Recently an independent researcher submitted evidence to the CWGC hoping to have located the final resting place of Pte Ewan. This research was reviewed, and extra work was conducted by the National Army Museum and the JCCC which concluded that now, 80 years after his death, it was possible to clearly identify where Pte Ewan was buried.
28 March 1960 (1960-03-28) Website www.cwgc.org. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.
The CWGC is a global organisation, caring for war graves at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories. We commemorate almost 1.7 million individuals, ensuring that all the Commonwealth men and women who died during both world wars are commemorated in a manner befitting their sacrifice. Our global estate is run by a ...
Oct 8, 2024 · Welcome to Silent Cities, a YouTube series about our work at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the stories of those we commemorate and the wider context of the battles they were involved in. Explore history from a very personal perspective in this thought provoking series and uncover the scope of our work.
Jun 18, 2021 · The Imperial War Graves Commission was founded by Royal Charter with Fabian Ware at its head on May 21, 1917, with the monumental task of caring for war graves worldwide. Speaking on Armistice Day 1938, Fabian was able to express the importance and magnitude of the work he was undertaking, saying: "I was able to record the real drawing together ...
Jan 31, 2024 · An RN ship lost with all hands in WW2 - 850 men, no survivors, no battlefield or war cemetery to visit today. Numbers greater than some battalions on the Somme in 1916. A Dutch lady submitted 69 stories of each Allied soldier who fell in the liberation of her home village in 1944; she used an online translator, much work for me, but it was her final story that made all the work worthwhile.
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