Who funds the CWGC?
Financing. The CWGC’s work is funded predominantly by grants from the governments of the six member states.
Who are we CWGC?
We honour and care for the men and women of the Commonwealth who died in the First and Second World Wars, ensuring they will never be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments, our work began more than a century ago building cemeteries at 23,000 locations all over the world.
Who qualifies for a war grave?
Eligibility generally requires a casualty to have died: • overseas while employed with the armed forces; or • from wounds inflicted while serving overseas. There are some exceptions to this requirement.
How many CWGC graves are there in the UK?
THERE ARE OVER 306,000 COMMEMORATIONS TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND AT OVER 13,000 LOCATIONS. AROUND 170,000 OF THESE ARE BURIALS, WITH THE REMAINDER BEING HONOURED ON MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING. EACH SITE HAS A UNIQUE PROGRAMME OF INSPECTION, CARE AND MAINTENANCE.
How many CWGC cemeteries are there?
Welcome to the CWGC We honour and care for the men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, ensuring they will never be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments, our work began with building, and now maintaining, cemeteries at 23,000 locations all over the world.
How many cemeteries and memorials is the CWGC responsible for looking after?
The CWGC cares for over 1.1 million Commonwealth War Graves at more than 23,000 locations across 150 countries and territories.
How many individuals are commemorated by the CWGC?
1.7 million individuals
The CWGC is now a truly global organisation – working to care for war graves at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories. We commemorate almost 1.7 million individuals.
Are there bodies in war graves?
Graves and burial grounds situated in the area of a battlefront were often damaged by subsequent fighting across the same location, resulting in the loss of the original marked graves. Some bodies simply could not be retrieved from underground.
Are soldiers actually buried in war graves?
Ordinary soldiers were often buried in communal graves which might not even be marked by anything more substantial than an improvised cross. Soldiers who died on campaign might be buried in an unmarked grave or buried beneath rocks in some of the more inhospitable terrain and almost certainly unrecorded.
Are there German war graves?
There are more than 350 CWGC sites around the world that contain a German War Grave, the majority of which contain fewer than 10 German casualties. Our cemeteries that contain the largest numbers of WW1 German casualties are mostly on the Western Front.
Does Germany have war graves?
The German War Graves Commission cares for the graves, at 832 cemeteries in 46 countries, of more than 2.7 million persons killed during World War I and World War II.
Are there bodies in Commonwealth War Graves?
Recovery, recording and reburial CWGC war records include references to ‘Memorial Plots’ which were removed when it was confirmed they did not contain any bodies. In most other circumstances, the bodies required exhumation and reburial, during which process attempts were made to identify the individuals.