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Iconic Commonwealth War Graves Commission Sites to Host Remembrance Day Events This Friday
Two of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s most iconic sites will play host to Remembrance Day events this Friday, November 11 at Tyne Cot Cemetery.
New Memorial Honors Indian Soldiers Who Died During the Great War
At midday on Sunday September 26th, a new war memorial, built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, will be unveiled in Sussex, paying tribute to some of the one and half million Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire during the First...
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Exhibition Tells Story of Fallen of Fromelles And First New War Cemetery in 50 Years
A new exhibition, organized by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which tells the story of 250 First World War soldiers recovered from a mass grave in northern France in 2009 will open at the Imperial War Museum London on July 1st 2010.
14 Year Old Reginald Earnshaw Confirmed As Youngest Known Service Casualty of WWII
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has confirmed that following a public appeal, which was made after it erected a headstone at the grave of Reginald Earnshaw in Comely Bank Cemetery in Edinburgh in July 2009, family members have been in contact to...
Process Begins to Lay to Rest 250 Recently Discovered WWI British And Australian Soldiers
In a somber and fitting ceremony the process began on Saturday to lay to rest some 250 recently discovered WWI British and Australian soldiers, who fell in the 1916 battle of Fromelles. The first soldier was buried with military honors in the presence...
David Beckham And Commonwealth War Graves Commission Team Up for Remembrance
Football legend David Beckham has lent his support to an engaging and imaginative new education resource from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which teaches students about the sacrifices made by footballers during the two world wars. Glory Days...
Archaeological Operation to Retrieve Bodies of Soldiers Killed in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles is Completed
The remains of hundreds of World War I soldiers buried in France have now been successfully recovered after a four-month archaeological operation. The bodies of 250 soldiers who were killed in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles have been recovered and will...
Artifacts Found At Fromelles Yield Clues to Nationality of WW1 Soldiers
The operation to recover the remains of WW1 British and Australian soldiers buried in mass graves at Fromelles in France is on schedule and will be completed in September. Oxford Archaeology have excavated the first two graves and work is already advanced...
