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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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Today is #ANZACDay , a day of remembrance for all Australians and New Zealanders who fell during the World Wars. Our Director General, Claire Horton CBE @dgcwgc , attended the dawn service at the Australian National Memorial @sirjohnmonash in France. Standing within our…

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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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#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: 📷 Sgt Graham Spark/MOD

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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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#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: #DDay77 #WW2

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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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“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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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 remains of four recently identified Canadian soldiers from the First World War were laid to rest with full honours earlier today @CWGC Loos British Cemetery in France. Find out more here: #WW1

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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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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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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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On 14th May, The Princess Royal visited CWGC Etaples Cemetery commemorating the King’s Pilgrimage by her great grandfather King George V, a century earlier.

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Happy Birthday to Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge – who has been a continued supporter of the work of the @CWGC . Seen here at the Commission’s Tyne Cot Cemetery in 2017.

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Three Canadian soldiers of the #WWI , Private Atherton, Corporal Howarth, and Sergeant Musgrave, were laid to rest with military honours at CWGC Loos British Cemetery, France. Read more here:

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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 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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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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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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#OTD Wilfred Owen, one of the most famous poets of World War One, was killed in action during the final offensive of the war, just one week before the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

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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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Thank you to our staff at Bayeux Cemetery in France. Read bout the service of remembrance here: #DDay79

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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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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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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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Nine First World War soldiers reburied at Tyne Cot | CWGC

Nine soldiers of the First World War have been reburied with full military honours at the world’s largest CWGC cemetery today, in the presence of our President, HRH The Duke of Kent.

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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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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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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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At 7:30 am on 1 July the men began their advance and the #141Days of the Somme Offensive began #Somme100

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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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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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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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#OTD in 1943, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander sent word to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, saying, "It is my duty to report that the Tunis campaign is over. All enemy resistance has ceased." The war in North Africa was finally over:

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Today is Her Majesty The Queen’s 96th birthday. We’d like to wish Her Majesty a very happy birthday and thank her for the many years of support she has given to the @CWGC . @RoyalFamily

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‘We Will Remember Them’ #CWGCremembers #OurWorkContinues #WeAreCWGC #ArmisticeDay #Armistice2019 #RemembranceSunday

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The @CWGC 's Portsmouth Naval Memorial will this week be at the heart of events marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the invasion of Normandy. Situated on Southsea Common the memorial commemorates 25,000 service personnel from both World Wars. #LegacyOfLiberation #DDay75 #WW2

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We are delighted to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to our head office in Maidenhead today on her first visit as our new President. We are grateful to have the tremendous support of The Princess Royal, everyone in the wider CWGC family shares her dedication and…

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We were delighted to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to our head office in Maidenhead in her first visit as our new President. The Princess Royal was welcomed by our Director General, Claire Horton CBE @dgcwgc , and met with staff and volunteers who help to care for…

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Happy New Year to all our followers and supporters from everyone at the CWGC and CWG Foundation! Keep up to date in 2024 with our work by following our social media and visiting our website

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The colour party, led by Pegasus the mascot of @TheParachuteReg , make their way into the @CWGC ’s Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery as the ceremony gets underway. #Arnhem75 #MarketGarden75 #WW2

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The grave of Warrant Officer Class II George Gristock in Brighton City (Bear Road) Cemetery, England, who was awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions a month before dying of his wounds in June 1940. Read is story on our website here:

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Happy Birthday to His Royal Highness, The Earl of Wessex. Seen here on a visit to the @CWGC ’s Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium in 2007.

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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." #CWGCremembers #Armistice100 #WW1 #WW2

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This #ArmisticeDay the @CWGC is calling upon members of the public to partake in a form of remembrance like no other. Join us in looking up to the stars at 7pm on 11 November to remember those who died during the two World Wars. Learn more, here: #ShineOn

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Stunning pictures from the top of #CWGC Thiepval Memorial capture #Somme100 commemorations. Photos courtesy of PA.

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“He who would valiant be” 📍Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany 📷 Robert Lancaster

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#OTD 75 years ago Private Jack Banks died in Normandy from wounds received while trying to take out an enemy machine gun. Aged 16, Jack was one of the youngest Commonwealth servicemen to die in Normandy & is buried @CWGC ’s Jerusalem War Cemetery. #LegacyOfLiberation #DDay75 #WW2

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Our skilled engravers refreshing headstones at Nine Elms Military Cemetery 🇫🇷 Thank you to them and all our staff who install, clean and maintain our headstones.

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On Christmas Eve, in a tradition spanning back many years, thousands of candles were placed & lit at headstones in @CWGC cemeteries & plots in the Netherlands by members of the local community. This year saw over 300 Commission sites being lit up to honour those who lie in them.

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A previously unknown First World War grave in Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, was identified this year as Corporal Frederick Percival Bousfield. His identity was confirmed through historical and archival research. Read more here:

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On 8 August 1918, the Battle of Amiens began. The @CWGC commemorates over 6,200 service personnel who died during the four day period of the battle. As we approach the centenary find out more about the battle, here: #Amiens100 #RoadToPeace #WW1

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A burial service was today held at the @CWGC 's Tyne Cot Cemetery for two unknown Australian soldiers and one unknown British soldier of the First World War who were discovered during roadworks near Passchendaele in December 2015. Read more, here: #WW1

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Our colleagues representing the CWGC at the Cenotaph this morning for Remembrance Sunday. Our new Patron, His Majesty The King, will lead the service of Remembrance before the traditional march-past.

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A lone piper plays the lament to end the #VJDay75 ceremony at the @CWGC ’s Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand earlier today. #VJDay #WW2

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RT @agh57 : Lovely epitaph on the #WW1 RAF casualty, buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery.

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This stunning picture of @CWGC ’s Tyne Cot Cemetery was recently sent to us. You will note one thing that is rather unique – that being how quiet the cemetery is at the height of summer. The image was captured in June when stricter Covid-19 restrictions were still in place. #WW1

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Tonight, as the sun set over Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, a guard of honour formed to pay respects to those who lost their lives during Operation Jubilee.

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Continuing our reflection on 2022, we look back on the 78th Anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem in September, when 103 year old Arnhem veteran, Ray Whitwell, layed flowers on the grave of his friend in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

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#OTD 76 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: #DDay76 #WW2

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Their Majesties the King and Queen paying their respects at Kariokor War Cemetery in #Kenya this morning. @royalfamily @UKinKenya #RoyalVisitKenya

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'Some corner of a foreign field.' 📍 Tigris Lane Cemetery, France.

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This evening will see the @CWGC ’s Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial hosting a special milestone - with the 31,000th sounding of the Last Post ceremony. To mark the occasion the @lastpostieper are tonight (7pm UK time) live streaming the event on Facebook here:

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6 months

The grave of Apprentice Peter Marritt, who died #OTD in 1942, while serving on the Merchant Navy ship the S. S. Chulmleigh. He was 16 years old. Peter now lies in our care in Tromso Cemetery, Norway.

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Commonwealth War Graves

1 year

From all of us at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas!

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4 months

Our President, HRH The Princess Royal, has laid a wreath this morning during the Act of Remembrance at our Colombo (Liveramentu) Cemetery in Sri Lanka. Find out more: @RoyalFamily 📷 @UKinSriLanka

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Our President, HRH The Princess Royal visits Colombo Liveramentu Cemetery | CWGC

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited Colombo Liveramentu Cemetery, Sri Lanka in her first official engagement as President of the CWGC.

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Commonwealth War Graves

7 years

More than 54,000 poppies fall from the roof of the @CWGC Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. #Passchendaele100

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4 years

A reminder that although public are currently not allowed to attend the daily @lastpostieper Association act of remembrance at the @CWGC ’s Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium – the ceremony does continue each evening at 8pm. #WW1

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5 years

His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Britsh Prime Minister, Theresa May arrive at the @CWGC 's Bayeux War Cemetery. #DDay75 #WW2

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4 months

The grave of Private James Dowling, who died while serving with the Special Air Service Regiment. He was 22 years old. James now lies in our care in Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany, among 2,934 other Commonwealth casualties of World War Two. 📷 Robert Lancaster

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6 years

Sunday, 25 March, will mark 100 years since Second Lieutenant Walter Tull was KIA during the First World War. Walter was the football league’s first black outfield player, and later became the first black officer to lead white troops. Find out more, here:

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