🕯️ Every grave now illuminated in a Tribute to the Fallen.
We will remember them.
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Commonwealth War Graves
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Commonwealth War Graves
@CWGC
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
- 🕯️ 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: ow.ly/5Th550S92V0 #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80
- A burial service took place this week for an unknown British soldier and an unknown German soldier, discovered together in a shell hole during work on the Vrijbosroute cycle path, north of Ieper in Belgium. Despite extensive and diligent research by our Commemorations Department
- Thank you to our staff at work this week! 📍 Etaples Military Cemetery 🇫🇷
00:00 - An unknown British soldier of the First World War was laid to rest this week with full military honours at our Vendresse British Cemetery in northern France.
- 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
- A moving ceremony tonight at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Bayeux in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day.
- #OTD, 1943, 19 Lancaster bombers took off for 3 dams in the industrial heart of Germany. 80 years on, The Dambusters raid is remembered as one of the most innovative operations of WWII. Discover more about the raid here: ow.ly/1iQR50OoJJe 📷 Sgt Graham Spark/MOD
- 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: royal.uk/princess-royal… @RoyalFamily
- 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: ow.ly/h5gb50Q6Ap8 @RoyalFamily
00:00- The remains of eight British soldiers, including four who have been identified by name, have been laid to rest this week in France, more than 108 years after their deaths in the First World War. Read the full story in the link below.
- A burial service was held at Workum (Spoordyk) General Cemetery in The Netherlands for three Second World War crew members of Lancaster ED603. Pilot Officer Charles Sprack DFM, Pilot Officer Arthur Smart DFM, and Pilot Officer Raymond Moore DFM were laid to rest with full
- #OTD 77 years ago the Allies landed in Normandy. Over 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen would be killed in action on D-Day - all commemorated by @CWGC. During the 86 day Normandy campaign over 22,000 Allied servicemen would die. Learn more, here: ow.ly/zsl450zVkPo #DDay77 #WW2
