Tag: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 12:55 UTC

  Century anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, remembered for the scale of casualties

  

  Next 31 July 2017 will mark a century since the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres – widely known as Passchendaele. The UK Government, in collaboration with the Belgian Government, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the Royal British Legion is hosting a series of events to mark one of the defining battles of the First World War.

• Saturday, December 6th 2014 - 00:08 UTC

  Falklands cemetery to share First World War medical records

  

  Interactive information technology providing details of how seamen lost their lives defending the Falkland Islands during the First World War will be unveiled at Stanley Cemetery in the capital on Monday 8 December.