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SOE OPERATIVE
ANDREE BORREL
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial

'MY UNCLE LES'
LESLIE GIBBS
Portsmouth Naval Memorial

ATA FLIGHT ENGINEER
JANICE HARRINGTON
Maidenhead (All Saints) Cemetery

D-DAY CASUALTY
ARTHUR WINTERHALDER
Ranville War Cemetery

WAR GRAVES GARDENER
CHARLES HENRY HOLTON
Kraków Rakowiki Cemetery

TYPHOON PILOT
ROLAND TEMPLE
Bayeux War Cemetery

VIEW OUR NEW CWGC DOCUMENTARY

Follow the work of the CWGC, see how we commemorate the fallen across the globe and how we engage current and future generations with their stories.

Silent Cities: OPERATION AVALANCHE REMEMBERED

Welcome to Silent Cities, a YouTube series about our work at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the stories of those we commemorate and the wider context of the battles they were involved in. Explore history from a very personal perspective in this thought provoking series and uncover the scope of our work.

Our work in Kenya

CWGC has several advanced stage programmes in Kenya to commemorate soldiers, carriers, and porters from across the African continent who were not remembered because of unequal approaches to commemoration over one hundred years ago. The stories from this work are so potent they are best explained by this short film – as told by our Heritage Manager, Patrick Abungu who is a key part of our team in Nairobi, Kenya.

In this film Patrick explains his personal perspective and outlines the importance of finding closure through the research led, community-first approach CWGC is taking as our work continues. We will remember them.

WHO LIVED ON YOUR STREET POSTCODE SEARCH

Discover a World War casualty who lived near you with our postcode search tool.