Canadian War Veterans Memorial Project
Commemorating those that served
Commemorating those that served
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This links to Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries currently prepared for publication on the Canadian War Veterans Memorial Project. This is based on visits to the cemeteries where, depending on time and conditions, Canadian graves were photographed. In some cases most, in others, where time was tight, only a few. Epitaphs have been transcribed only if they were legible and could be realistically transcribed without error.
Just outside Ypres at the location of what in WW1 was known as Hyde Park Corner in Ploegsteert is Berks Cemetery Extension. In addition to the graves it also contains the Ploegsteert Memorial to the over 11,000 Commonwealth men who died in the area and have no know grave.
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A beautiful cemetery, completely enclosed within the communal Brussels Town Cemetery
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A very small cemetery outside Mons enclosed with the grounds of the village communal cemetery
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A beautiful cemetery outside of Mons containing the graves of the last Commonwealth troops killed in action in the First World War
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The name is Canada, spelled backwards. One of the many beautiful WW1 cemeteries in the Somme
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An interesting cemetery, Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension contains the graves of 291 Canadians, a number of British soldiers from both wars, soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, India (5) and a single South African grave. There are also 108 Germans buried in the cemetery.
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A small cemetery outside of Barlin. Drive bast the village cemetery to get to the CWGC entrance.
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Canada's primary cemetery for the men killed at Juno Beach, June 6-7 1944
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This brick wall enclose cemetery near the village of Thelus contains the graves of many Canadians killed at Vimy Ridge in April 1917.
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A beautiful communal churchyard in rural France, with 5 World War 2 aircraftmen buried by the local residents.
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Mostly Canadian troops killed in the disastrous 19 August 1942 Raid or during the liberation pf Dieppe in 1944
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A First World War cemetery located between Arras and Cambrai. Most graves are from August 1918
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A beautiful cemetery set in the countryside, just outside Mont St-Eloi,, north of Arras.
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At times completely hidden by the crops in the field surrounding it, and not always easy to find, this is a quiet Canadian cemetery in the midst of fertile farmland.
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Well worth a visit, it isn't an easy cemetery to get to: you have to go up a farm trail, then a short hike through the fields to get to it. There are mostly Canadians killed during 1916 at the Somme buried here. This has some of the best displays of horticulture in the area.
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A mixed French - Commonwealth cemetery nestled behind the Thiepval Memorial. It contains 600 graves, 300 French, 300 Commonwealth. Of the Commonwealth, only 61 are identified graves. There are 4 Unknown soldiers identified as Canadian buried in the Cemetery.
View cemetery imagesMore cemeteries will be added as I go through the images from my latest trip.
