📍 Tilly-sur-Seulles, Normandy.

This year, we will be marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, with major events taking place at our sites in the UK and in Normandy.

Find out how you can get involved:
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Visiting Tuscany this year?

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with 'Arezzo in Tour', the tourism entity of the Municipality of #Arezzo in Italy, where our Arezzo War Cemetery is located.

The Municipality are offering a special discount to visitors to the Arezzo…

#DDay80 | Sur invitation du vice président international et du directeur France de la Commonwealth War Graves, le Préfet a visité le cimetière britannique de Douvres-la-Délivrande.

1123 soldats reposent dans ce haut lieu de memoire, concession perpétuelle faite par la France à…

In our latest blog, follow our colleague Alec's journey taking on the Walking Our War Graves: Normandy fundraising virtual challenge.

Read Alec's journey and discover why you should sign up here:
foundation.cwgc.org/blog/taking-up…

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👟'Strap on your boots and join this beautiful act of remembrance.' 👟

Join Koen, one of the incredible people taking part in Walking our War Graves: Normandy to remember those who liberated Europe 80 years ago.

Register now!
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Venray War Cemetery contains 692 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 30 of them unidentified.

The Dutch Foundations “Stichting Overloon War Chronicles and “Stichting Adoptiegraven CWGC Venray War Cemetery” would like to get in touch with family members of the soldiers…

Australia Consulate General Mr.Paul Murphy visited Kirkee War Cemetery and pay homage to the martyrs Commonwealth War Graves AAAComms

War Graves Week is back for 2024!

Discover the heritage of your area on one of our free tours in the UK and remember those who fell in service during the World Wars.

Find out what's happening in your area:
cwgc.org/war-graves-wee…

📷 Eric Compernolle

Pte Emile Corteil and his dog , Glen, served with the 9th Parachute Battalion, who jumped on D-Day with the task of destroying Merville Battery near Sword Beach.

Discover what happened to them on For Evermore:
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80 years on from D-Day, join virtual challenge like no other.

🏃‍♀️ 🏃🏿‍♂️ Virtually Walk in the footsteps of those who liberated Europe with 'Walking our War Graves: Normandy' and raise money for Commonwealth War Graves:
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#LegacyofLiberation #DDay80

📍 Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery, Normandy.

This year, we will be marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, with major events taking place at our sites in the UK and in Normandy.

Find out how you can get involved:
ow.ly/yM2e50Rc8hI

#LegacyofLiberation #DDay80

Paying tribute to the Fallen, lying in the shadow of Vesuvius: at the Commonwealth War Graves Naples War Cemetery in the still of the morning, as I continue my visits to all 126 @cwgc sites in Italy #LestWeForget

A pleasure to catch up over a Neapolitan coffee early this morning with Giancarlo and colleagues - and to thank them for their brilliant work keeping the Commonwealth War Graves Naples War Cemetery pristine. Grazie mille e buon lavoro!

Starlings visiting our Phaleron War Cemetery, 🇬🇷

#WildlifeWednesday

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As well as fighting on air, land, and sea, the Allies fought a subtle war of intelligence and espionage for the liberation of Europe and beyond.

In our latest blog, we tell the story of agents of the SOE:
cwgc.org/our-work/blog/…

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With its Main Hall now completed, we're taking a look at the ongoing restoration of our Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, one year on.

Find out more here:
cwgc.org/our-work/news/…

#MeninGateMonday

📍Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Normandy.

It contains 2,958 WWII burials, the majority Canadian.

If you know the story of someone buried here, share on For Evermore:
cwgc.org/stories/

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📍 Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery, Normandy.

The original burials here date from 8-12 July 1944, when the final Allied attack on Caen was in progress.

Stay up to date on events in Normandy by signing up to our newsletter:
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On 5 June, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux, we're paying tribute to those who did not survive D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.

Register for your ticket here:
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📍 Ryes War Cemetery, Normandy.

This cemetery is not far inland from the beaches at Arromanches, where the 50th Division landed 80 years ago on 6 June, 1944.

Find out about our events in Normandy here:
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