Commonwealth War Graves
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Our mission is to ensure those who died in service, or as a result of conflict, are commemorated so that they, and the human cost of war, are remembered forever
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🕯️ Every grave now illuminated in a Tribute to the Fallen. We will remember them. #legacyofliberation #DDay80 @BBCOne
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🕯️ As D-Day veterans arrive in Normandy and visit the graves of those who fell, we've been Lighting their Legacy in a vigil to illuminate every Commonwealth War Grave across our sites in Normandy. Discover the story of D-Day:. #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80
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Thank you to our staff at work this week!. 📍 Etaples Military Cemetery 🇫🇷
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A happy birthday to the Princess of Wales, photographed here in at our Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery in 2016. @RoyalFamily . Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire
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The Princess Royal has visited our Wayne’s Keep Military Cemetery in Cyprus. There was a Service of Remembrance and Wreath Laying alongside our Director General Claire Horton CBE @dgcwgc . Photo credit: . @RoyalFamily
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Today, we are delighted to announce that His Majesty The King has become our Patron, the first in CWGC history. HRH The Duke of Kent has also officially handed the Presidency over to HRH The Princess Royal. Read more on our website: @royalfamily
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Each year across The Netherlands and Belgium on Christmas Eve candle lights are placed at Commonwealth War Graves Commission war graves to remember those Commonwealth service personnel who died in the two World Wars.
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Happy birthday to HRH The Prince of Wales. Thank you for your continued support of our work. 📷 Visit of HRH Prince William to Bedford House Cemetery during the Passchendaele 100 centenary commemorative events.
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“I remember him as a very decent man.” D-Day veteran Roy Maxwell, No 4 Commando makes an emotional visit to the grave of his friend Lieutenant Phillip Wellesley Colley @CWGC’s Bayeux War Cemetery. Learn more, here: #LegacyOfLiberation #DDay75 #WW2
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HRH the Princess Royal receives flowers from two children of our gardeners, and places them on the grave of a Normandy Casualty in Bayeux War Cemetery. @RoyalFamily #LecacyofLiberation #DDay80 @BBCOne
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Happy Birthday to our President, His Royal Highness The Duke Of Kent. His Royal Highness has been our President for over 52 years and continues to support us as we honour the casualties from the Commonwealth of the two world wars.
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Today we are hosting a commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
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His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent has today officially handed over the Presidency of the CWGC to Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. Claire Horton CBE @dgcwgc pays tribute to the Duke on behalf of all of us at the Commission: @RoyalFamily
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"We Will Remember Them". Listen to Normandy veteran Ken Hay, MBE & see how @CWGC's work continues to honour the 1.7 million men & women of the Commonwealth forces who died in both World Wars: #OurWorkContinues #ToTheFourCorners #CWGCremembers #ArmisticeDay
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A happy birthday to the Princess of Wales, photographed here in at our Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery in 2016. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire
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We are deeply honoured and grateful to our President, HRH The Princess Royal, for joining us in unveiling this truly remarkable memorial today. Present at the ceremony were descendants whose relatives put their lives on the line for the freedoms we all enjoy today. @RoyalFamily
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Two British soldiers killed during the Battle of Arnhem in the Second World War have been laid to rest with full military honours 80 years after their deaths: #LegacyofLiberation #Arnhem80. 📷Crown Copyright
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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them". #WW1 #WW2 #ArmisticeDay
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This week there was burial service for 5 unknown Commonwealth soldiers at Loos British Cemetery Extension, France.
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Happy 40th birthday to HRH Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge @RoyalFamily . In this photo from 2016 HRH was at the @CWGC Memorial in Thiepval, France. Photo credit: Chris Radburn/PA Wire
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Our President, HRH The Princess Royal, leading the ceremony at our Bayeux War Cemetery last week and meeting the children of our gardeners. Discover the #LegacyofLiberation here:. @RoyalFamily
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The grave of Lieutenant John Kipling, only son of Rudyard and Carrie Kipling, who died on this day in 1915 at the age of 18. He now lies in our care in St. Mary's A.D.S Cemetery, France.
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100 years ago, King George V undertook a pilgrimage to newly established Commission cemeteries in Europe. Tomorrow we will be telling the story of his journey on our Facebook and Instagram stories. You can read the full story here: @RoyalFamily #WeAreCWGC
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Over the next few days we will celebrate HM The Queen's #PlatinumJubilee by shining a spotlight on some of Her Majesty's most memorable visits to @CWGC sites across 70 years of her reign. You can also have a look back here: @RoyalFamily #TheQueenVisited
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When HRH the Duke of Kent stepped down from his role as our President towards the end of last year, we wanted to give him a very special gift to thank him for more than 50 years of service to the Commission. At our workshop in Beaurains, France the team have worked extremely
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With our vigil beginning last night, the grave of every serviceperson who fell in Normandy will have their grave illuminated. Discover the Great Vigil:. #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80
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A beautiful Tribute to the Fallen at our Bayeux War Cemetery in Normandy, where every grave has been illuminated, lighting their legacy. Watch our full highlights on our YouTube channel. #LegacyOfLiberation #DDay80 @BBCOne
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Her Majesty The Queen appeared yesterday on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to greet the crowds and watch the parade alongside our President, His Royal Highness Duke of Kent. #PlatinumJubilee #TroopingTheColour
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More than a century after his death, a soldier of The Royal Field Artillery has been laid to rest on the Somme alongside his comrades. Find out more here: (Photo: Crown Copyright)
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The @rafredarrows paying tribute at today's Service of Remembrance at our Bayeux War Cemetery, Normandy. Doing what they do best 🛩️. Discover more about D-Day here:. #DDay80 #LegacyofLiberation
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Do you know what goes into replacing a Commonwealth headstone?. Our South East England team recently replaced the headstone of Private John Elms, while our colleague Kev explained what they were doing.
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Wishing a speedy recovery and our best wishes to our President, HRH Princess Anne. @RoyalFamily
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A previously unknown First World War grave in Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium has been identified as Corporal Frederick Percival Bousfield. His identity was confirmed through historical and archival research. Read more here:
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100 years ago, King George V undertook a three day pilgrimage to newly established Commission cemeteries in Europe. Today we continue to tell the story of his journey here on Twitter. You can also read the full story here: #KingsPilgrimage
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The remains of fourteen Commonwealth soldiers who fought in World War One, none of them identifiable by name, were recently laid to rest at our cemeteries in France. Find out more about these services here:. 📷 Crown
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Poppies for over 54,000 servicemen named on the @CWGC Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial fall during tonight's #Passchendaele100 commemorations.
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Today marks the anniversary of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings. The war cemeteries and memorials maintained by us in Normandy tell the story of D-Day in casualties and headstones. Read our latest blog to discover these stories: © IWM A 23938
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Private Herbert Greaves was buried with full military honours in a service yesterday at our Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension, after over 100 years of having no known grave. Photo: @vdnsaintpol
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Second Lieutenant James Greenhalgh, who worked as a school teacher and played for Bolton Wanderers Football Club, has finally been laid to rest in France along with two unknown soldiers, nearly 110 years after his death. Read the full story here:.
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On Saturday 14th May, The Princess Royal visited @CWGC Etaples Military Cemetery commemorating the King’s Pilgrimage by her great-grandfather King George V, a century ago. Read about the visit here: @RoyalFamily #KingsPilgrimage.
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In May, we shared this before and after photo of the grave of Private John Lloyd, died 15 August 1943 aged 31 years old. The private memorial was no longer suitably commemorating him. This was replaced by a CWGC headstone, which we will look after in perpetuity.
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The Torch of Commemoration has arrived at the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino #LegacyofLiberation
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“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning,.We will remember them.”. #OurWorkContinues #WeAreCWGC #Armistice2020 #RemembranceSunday
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In May we marked 100 years since the King's pilgrimage where King George V undertook a personal pilgrimage to the newly established Commission cemeteries in France and Belgium. Thousands would make the journey to the continent to pay their respects as they still do to this day.
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More than a century after his death, Private Stevenson, a 34-year-old soldier from Suffolk, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours alongside an unknown soldier from his regiment and another unknown British soldier. Find out more:
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This September we are laying to rest two unknown soldiers, lost for over a century. This ceremony, organised together with the @DefenceHQ Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre will also mark the official opening of our extension to the Loos British Cemetery, France. This
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Our Patron, His Majesty The King, and our President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal at the Cenotaph this morning for Remembrance Sunday. #LestWeForget @royalfamily
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Thank you to Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal for visiting our Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial, Mumbai, India, yesterday and paying her respects to those we commemorate there. @RoyalFamily
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Maurizio, our head gardener in Rome, has been working at Rome War Cemetery now for 30 years. Congratulations Maurizio and thank you for all your work!
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At 7.30am on 1 July 1916 the Battle of the Somme began. Over 150,000 Commonwealth servicemen lie buried in 250 military and 150 civilian cemeteries on the Somme. Six memorials to the missing commemorate by name over 100,000 whose graves are not known. #Somme104 #WeAreCWGC #WW1
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At 7.30am on 1 July 1916 the Battle of the Somme began. Over 150,000 Commonwealth servicemen lie buried in 250 military and 150 civilian cemeteries on the Somme. Six memorials to the missing commemorate by name over 100,000 whose graves are not known. #Somme105 #WeAreCWGC #WW1
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More than a century after his death, Private Robert Kenneth Malcolm, a 23 year-old stretcher bearer from Stockton-on-Tees, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours at our Bedford House Cemetery in Belgium
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A new headstone has been installed at Peterborough Old (Broadway) Cemetery for a grave that was recently found. Unfortunately there was no response to the appeal for relatives.
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At the going down of the sun.And in the morning.We will remember them . 📍 Hornchurch Cemetery
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Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Follow the ongoing events on our social media, or on TV where the BBC will be bringing you scenes from Bayeux War Cemetery:. #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80
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In May 1922 it was the King's wish to undertake a private pilgrimage to the former battlefields, visiting war graves in Belgium and France. @RoyalFamily #KingsPilgrimage
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This year, more than a century after his death, Private Robert Kenneth Malcolm, a 23-year-old stretcher bearer from Stockton-on-Tees, was finally laid to rest with full military honours at our Bedford House Cemetery in Belgium.
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Thank you to His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh for visiting our Jakarta War Cemetery and paying respects to the over 1000 Commonwealth casualties we commemorate here. RT @DomJermey
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“I am honoured to become President of this organisation and know that I have a challenge in continuing the dedicated work of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent for over 50 years.". Our new President, HRH The Princess Royal.
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Nine First World War soldiers have today been buried with full military honours at Tyne Cot Cemetery in the presence of @CWGC's President, HRH The Duke of Kent. Seven of the nine men were able to be identified by the @wardetectives. #OurWorkContinues #WW1
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This VE Day we remember those Commonwealth service personnel who didn’t make it home from the Second World War. The @CWGC commemorates them all in perpetuity. #WW2 #VEDay #VEDay75 #LestWeForget #ShareYourTribute
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Today at the 79th anniversary of Operation Market Garden at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. Brilliant to see local school children and the community remembering the fallen soldiers commemorated here.
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A heart-breaking story from Anthea Ionides about her memories of receiving the news of her father's passing. Read next to his grave. @BBCOne #legacyofliberation #DDay80
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At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. Like 98-year-old Normandy Veteran Major Ted Hunt (left) and his friend did today at Bayeux War Cemetery and the @CWGC will do in perpetuity. #WeAreCWGC #DDay #DDay74
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From everyone at the CWGC we wish our Patron, His Majesty The King, a very happy birthday. @royalfamily
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Our President, HRH the Princess Royal has arrived as well, with our Chairman the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP and Vice Chairman, Vice Admiral Peter Hudson CB CBE. @RoyalFamily @BBCOne #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80
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Happy Birthday to HRH, The Duke of Cambridge. Thank you for your continued support of the work of the @CWGC. Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are seen here during a visit to the Commission's Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore in September 2012.
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This week a burial service took place for Serjeant John Smith and Gunner Charles Lightfoot. Both fell on 13 September 1914 and now lie in our care in Vendresse British Cemetery, France. RT @Danelleke13
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The graves of six Royal Dublin Fusiliers listed as missing in the ‘100 Days Offensive’ during the First World War have finally been located and rededicated in Belgium this week. Discover more on our website: . 📷 Eric Compernolle.
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Our President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, paid her respects today at our new specially-built cemetery extension in northern France:
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We are honoured to have the Royals visit Kariokor War Cemetery in #Kenya this morning. The name Kariokor originates from the district’s historical ties to the Nairobi Carrier Corps. Find out more on our website: @royalfamily @UkinKenya #RoyalVisitKenya
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This #ArmisticeDay we’re asking you to join us at 7pm (UK time) to partake in a form of remembrance like no other. Learn how you can ensure that the names of the 1.7m Commonwealth service personnel #ShineOn, here: #RemembranceDay #WW1 #WW2
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We are remembering the fallen of Cassino, 80 years on. This is the #LegacyofLiberation. Discover more at
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Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, Gibraltar. The majority of the men who lost their lives while at Gibraltar during the 1939-1945 War are buried here. Find out more about this cemetery here:.
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During tonight's @lastpostieper ceremony, at the @CWGC's Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, current Australian service personnel provided a vigil to coffins containing the bodies of two unknown Australian soldiers - who will be buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery tomorrow. #WW1 #CWGCremembers
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This week we remember those who gave their lives to liberate Europe on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the landings on the beaches of Normandy. The King is the first ever Royal Patron of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) which commemorates those who fell during the
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Our teams have recently installed a headstone for Private James Crump, who served with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. James died in December 1919 at 29 years old. He had not previously been commemorated.
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His Royal Highness, The Duke of Kent will today celebrate fifty years as President of the @CWGC, having served the Commission since 1970. This photograph taken in February 1973 shows the Duke of Kent on a visit to Gibraltar. #WeAreCWGC #CWGCarchive
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Over 100 years after his death, William Meager, a 38-year-old soldier from London, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours in our Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Belgium. Learn about Pte Meager's story and yesterday's service here:.
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This year we've marked milestones for many of our staff, including Maurizio, our head gardener in Rome, who has been working at Rome War Cemetery for 30 years now. Congratulations to all our staff who have celebrated milestones and thank you for all your work!
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Happy birthday to HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, photographed here visiting our Jakarta War Cemetery. @RoyalFamily
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