COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

Article below from the Dec 99 Britannia and Castle

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission have a Debt Of Honour Register at:

http://yard.ccta.gov.uk/cwgc/register.nsf

The Debt Of Honour Register provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. (A record some 60,000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.) The cemeteries and memorials where these names are commemorated, in perpetuity, are located in around 150 countries These places of commemoration are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

This database makes it possible to identify the exact location, by cemetery plot or memorial panel, where any given name is commemorated.

Within minutes, The Norfolk Editor found details of 57 namesakes killed in WW1 and WW2. Give it a look.

(This article was originally published in the Dec 99 Britannia and Castle, the journal of the Royal Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment Associations and is shown here with permission of the Editor - who happens to be the 1080 District Webmaster!)

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