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Belgian military cemetery: Houthulst; Belgian military cemetery: Oeren; Canadian national monument: The Brooding Soldier; Commonwealth military cemetery: 1st D.C.L.I. Cemetery, The Bluff; Commonwealth military cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery; Commonwealth military cemetery: Buff’s Road Cemetery; Commonwealth military cemetery: Buttes New ...
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders; List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Lorraine; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme
Many post cemeteries have been given national cemetery status as late as 2020, which is considerably later than the original cemetery. For example, Vancouver Barracks post cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec. Order No. 13781, 2017 ...
The classically inspired Menin Gate in Ypres. 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 halls and parks, dedicated to remembering those involved in the conflict.
The cemetery was originally a wartime one; and the early burials are mainly of Grenadier Guards who fell in the area on 25 September 1916, which was when the Guards Division took the nearby village of Lesboeufs. It was a small cemetery, with only 40 graves, but after the Armistice it was increased in size, and now contains 3,136 graves.
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time.
Confederate Memorial Museum & Cemetery – Atoka [47] Fort Gibson Historic Site & Interpretative Center – Fort Gibson [48] Fort Gibson National Cemetery – Fort Gibson. Fort Sill Museum – Lawton. Fort Sill National Cemetery – Elgin. Fort Supply Historic Site – Fort Supply [49] Fort Towson Historic Site – Fort Towson [50]
The following list is of the CWGC memorials to the missing of the First World War erected elsewhere, both in the UK and other regions of the worlds, limited to those that list more than 1000 names each. The total from the 'numbers' column below of those listed on these memorials is 138,062.