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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
The Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917. Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and registers, including, after the Second World War, a record of the Civilian War Dead.
It was the energy of Sir Fabian Ware, the Commission's founder, which established the principles upon which the work of the Commission was built. Those principles, which have remained unaltered, were:
- each of the dead should be commemorated individually by name on headstone or memorial;
- headstones and memorials should be permanent
- headstones should be uniform;
- there should be no distinction made on account of military or civil rank, race or creed.
Address:
2 Marlow Road
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 7DX
Tel: 1628 507200 for casualty information and enquiries or
Tel: 1628 634221 for any other enquiries.
E-mail: http://www.cwgc.org/contact.asp?menuid=7
Website: http://www.cwgc.org/
For personnel who died since 1948, please see the following link:
Additional Information: Veterans Graves
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