If you have questions or feedback, our Enquiries Team can handle them. Find out how we use tech to tell the stories of the war dead. We do this through the CWGC Archive, our projects, our latest news and search tools.Īdvances in digital technology offer new ways to connect the next generation with the work of the CWGC and the individuals we commemorate. Part of this is telling their stories to ensure they are not forgotten. Our work aims to commemorate the men and women of the Commonwealth who lost their lives during the World Wars. You can also search for records including Civilian War Dead 1939-1945 under the Served In drop-down menu. You can search by name, Service Number, which regiment of the armed forces they served in and by country. FIND A GRAVE WW2įor Second World War Dead records, tick the Second World War box. If you are looking for records of war dead from the Great War, select First World War at the bottom of the search box. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records cover countries across the globe. You can also search by Country Commemorated In to find records that relate to a particular county. Use the Served With (Country) drop-down menu to search for war dead by the country they served in. You do not have to search purely by name, you could, for example, run a search for all casualties listed in a particular cemetery or war memorial, or all that served for a particular regiment. If you use Match Term Exactly on the same search, you would only get the result for Clive Smith. For example, if you searched for First name: Clive, Last name: Smith, you’d get Clive Smith at the top of the list, with other Clives and Smiths in order of relevance down the list. This allows you a level of flexibility in the search terms. The fields that allow you to enter text manually have an option called ‘Match this search term exactly’.

This means that we will attempt to give you the most relevant casualty at the top of the list, with further results listed down the page. You do not have to use every field in our search tool.Īll of our results are sorted by Relevance. For a more detailed search, you can add further fields by using the Additional Fields. There are a range of different fields that will allow you to create the right search terms for you. Our search tool will allow you to interrogate our database to find the various war casualty records we maintain.

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