war graves
Fallen troops' resting
War graves are the burial sites of those killed in military conflicts, typically maintained by government agencies or international commissions.
The term often refers collectively to cemeteries containing such graves: We visited the war graves at Normandy.
War grave sites are treated with particular reverence and protected by international conventions.
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- ossuariesReceptacles for skeletal remains
- soldierArmed forces member
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
military cemeteries · repatriation · cenotaphs · eternal flame · epitaphs · Flanders Fields · In Flanders Fields · cross · commemorative plaques · remembrance ceremonies · lest we forget · tombstone · white crosses · fallen soldiers · fallen heroes · casualties · poppy wreaths · wreaths
- war recordsmilitary archives, service records, military maps, battle plans, casualty lists
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- ANZAC historyANZAC, ANZAC Day, Gallipoli, Gallipoli campaign, dawn service
- Canadian WartimeCanadian Army, D-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront
- GallipoliGallipoli, Dardanelles, ANZACs, April 25, memorials
war gravespet cemetery
Burial site for pets
family plots · churchyard · family plot · memorial gardens · columbarium