Funerary and Memory Sites of the First World War
26 entries in the Funerary and Memory Sites of the First World War compendium.
Arras Flying Services MemorialMemorial to nearly 1,000 Commonwealth airmen with no known grave.Arras MemorialMemorial to 35,942 missing soldiers of the Arras sector.Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland MemorialPreserved Somme battlefield and Newfoundland Regiment memorial.Bedford House CemeteryA Commonwealth burial ground near Zillebeke on the Western Front.Berks Cemetery ExtensionCWGC burial ground with the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing.Buttes New British CemeteryCommonwealth War Graves cemetery in the Ypres Salient, Belgium.Canadian National Vimy MemorialCanadian memorial on Vimy Ridge, France, honoring First World War fallen.Delville Wood CemeteryCommonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery near Longueval, Somme.Douaumont OssuaryMemorial containing remains of soldiers from the Battle of Verdun.Étaples Military CemeteryThe largest CWGC cemetery in France.First DCLI Cemetery, The BluffA burial ground near an artificial ridge on the Western Front.Fort de LoncinA destroyed fort, war grave, and memorial of the Battle of Liège.Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military CemeteryFirst new CWGC cemetery in over 50 years, built for 250 soldiers.Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) CemeterySmall CWGC cemetery in Ploegsteert, Belgium, for First World War dead.Island of Ireland Peace ParkA memorial for all Irish soldiers of World War I.Langemark German war cemeteryGerman war cemetery near Langemark, site of 1914 student deaths.Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) CemeteryA CWGC cemetery in the Ypres Salient, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.Lone Tree Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryCWGC burial ground on the Messines Ridge, established 1917.Menin GateMemorial to the missing of the Ypres Salient.Neuve-Chapelle Indian MemorialMemorial to Indian soldiers with no known grave from World War I.Neuville-St Vaast German war cemeteryLargest German war cemetery in France, with 44,833 burials.Nieuport MemorialMemorial to 547 British missing from 1914 and 1917 fighting.Notre Dame de LoretteWorld's largest French military cemetery on a bitterly contested ridge.Polygon Wood CemeteryA Commonwealth war cemetery in the Ypres Salient.Pozières MemorialMemorial to the missing of the Spring Offensive and Allied recovery.Prowse Point Military CemeteryA Salient cemetery named for a hero of the 1914 stand.
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