The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemora
Canadian war graves near Ypres, Belgium. The crosses identify the graves as those of soldiers of the 14th Canadian Battalion who were killed over several days in May 1916.
Carving of headstones by hand would take a week
Cover page of Graves of the Fallen
The site plan for the Forceville Communal Cemetery and Extension
World War I memorials
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World War I is remembered and commemorated by various war memorials, including civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian designs such as
The classically inspired Menin Gate in Ypres
One of many German war memorials in Berlin to the dead of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, by Johannes Boese
Royal Irish Rifles soldiers resting in a communication trench early in the Battle of the Somme
Nagelfigur of Paul von Hindenburg in Berlin, 1915