Our work in Sierra Leone

Today we wish our Patron, His Majesty The King, a very happy birthday.  📷His Majesty at Delhi War Cemetery 2019, Phaleron War Cemetery 2018, Artillery Wood Cemetery 2017, and Jakarta War Cemetery 2008

Rededication services took place for Lieutenant Norman Frederick Hunter and Serjeant George Goodson Moore DCM at our Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres and for Private George Hall at our Vichte Military Cemetery near Kortrijk. All three men had been listed as missing and were

We were honoured to welcome Our President, HRH The Princess Royal, to Sydney War Cemetery in Australia and Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore this week. HRH's presence at the Remembrance ceremonies was a deeply meaningful tribute to the World War fallen we commemorate.   📷Kranji

CWGC in attendance at Royal Reception for VJ Day 80 -

We were honoured to attend a reception for veterans who served in the Second World War in the Pacific, and their families, to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day at Windsor Castle. The event, attended by Their Majesties The King and Queen, as well as The Prince and Princess of

Marking Remembrance Day 2025 around the world -

We were honoured to host so many moving Remembrance ceremonies at our sites around the world this week. We have uploaded more photos to our website, please see the link below.  Have you got a story to tell about a relative or loved one that you paid tribute to on Remembrance

Discover the official film screened during the French national ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, honouring the 139 Great War memorial sites along the Western Front, listed as @UNESCOEU World Heritage Sites in 2023. A perfect representation of our places of commemoratuion and

Remembrance Day ceremony today in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The cemetery is located close to the site of WW2 Thai/Burma railway and is now the resting of 6800 personnel, most of whom died as POWs building the railway in appalling conditions. @CWGC

The British Ambassador to Switzerland, HMA @JamesWSquire was proud to lay a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Vevey to commemorate all who died so that we might live, all who endured pain so that we might know joy and all who suffered imprisonment so that we might

A Service of Remembrance was held in different areas around #Greece – today in #Athens at the @CWGC Cemetery and in #Rhodes at the Rhodes War Cemetery, and on Sunday in #Corfu at the British Municipal Cemetery and in Chania, #Crete, at the Souda Bay War Cemetery.

Remembrance Sunday service in Reykjavik Cemetery at @CWGC plot organised by @UKinIceland great to see pictures and to see many attendees.

Very grateful to volunteers who assisted @CWGC staff to plant 2000 Narcisus bulbs yesterday in Edinburgh Corstorphine Hill Cemetery look forward to seeing them flowering next year.

Second Officer Elsie Joy Davison | Second World War Story |

Second Officer Elsie Joy Davison (nee Muntz) was born in York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1910. She served in the Second World War in the Air Transport Auxiliary, discover her story on For Evermore.  This Armistice Day, help us keep their stories alive to make sure their

🕊️ Remembrance Day Commemoration at Kranji  On 9 November, we gathered at the Kranji War Cemetery to commemorate Remembrance Day and honour the sacrifice of those who served.  The ceremony was organised by the British High Commissioner of Singapore. Our Vice Chairman, Vice

On Armistice Day, we pause together at 11am to reflect and remember. The tradition of silence was introduced by King George V so that “the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead.” 11 o’clock was chosen as the moment the Armistice

Marking Remembrance Day 2025 around the world -   https://t.co/Tqq6lCD9RY

We were honoured to host many moving Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at our sites around the world yesterday. We've shared some of the photos on our website. If you've taken part in a Remembrance event in one of our sites please don't hesitate to tag us on social media, we will