Encyclopedia > Commonwealth War Graves Commission

  Article Content

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a joint governmental organisation responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of members of the Commonwealth military forces who died in the two world wars and subsequent wars, to build memorials to those with no known grave, and to keep records of the war dead. Member nations are: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Newfoundland was a founding member but ceased to have separate status from 1949 when it became a part of Canada.

Web link http://www.cwgc.org/task.htm



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Shinnecock Hills, New York

... of it is water. The total area is 9.61% water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 1,749 people, 502 households, and 313 families residing in the ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 23.5 ms