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Reference no. 1567-ND01. Statistics source: CWGC. Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery is a First World War cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the outskirts of Fromelles in northern France, near the Belgian border. Constructed between 2009 and 2010, it was the first new Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery ...
Mass grave. Mass grave of 26 victims of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, excavated in 2014. The mass grave of the German troops who fell in the Battle of Hyvinkää in 1918 during the Finnish Civil War in Hyvinkää, Finland. A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial.
Langemark German war cemetery. Coordinates: 50°55′14″N 2°55′0″E. Langemark German war cemetery. German War Graves Commission. Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. This mass grave contains 24,917 soldiers of whom 7,977 remain unknown. The names of those known are on the surrounding upright basalt blocks. Used for those deceased ...
In front of the monument, and sloping downhill, lies the largest single French military cemetery of the First World War, with 16,142 graves. It was initiated in 1923 by Verdun veteran André Maginot, who would later create the Maginot Line. The ossuary was officially inaugurated on 7 August 1932 by French President Albert Lebrun .
Photo by Ernest Brooks. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [ 1 ] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military ...
The problem of how to mark the names of the fallen had to wait until the end of the Second World War for a solution and eventually in 1972 the wooden crosses were replaced with crosses made from Belgian granite. There are two mass graves containing the remains of 7,492 soldiers of whom only 2,316 could be identified.
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. Huge numbers of memorials were built in the 1920s and 1930s, with around ...
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.