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The World RemembersThe World Remembers is a non-profit Canadian company, based in Toronto, Canada, whose sole purpose is to build and facilitate The World Remembers. The World Remembers will display the names of those who lost their lives in names-display installations in participating nations. They will be seen in a network of schools or other organisations, on our website, and on phones and ...
The Roll of Honour begins on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and ends on 31 August 1944. There is no single ‘official’ date for the end of the Battle of Normandy, but there are several dates that are often used. These include the final Allied encirclement of German forces in Normandy on 21 August (the closure of the Falaise Pocket), the liberation of ...
Registration of the War Dead 1914-1918. Photograph taken by a German soldier in April 1915 in captured French trenches on the battlefield north of Ypres. The cross for the battlefield burial simply says “Français” - “French”. (1) The scale of casualties in the First World War was unprecedented. Thousands of soldiers were being buried ...
The National Army Museum holds the soldiers’ effects ledgers that were created by the War Office to record the monies owing to those who died while serving in the British Army. These records run from 1901 to 1960, covering the latter stages of the Boer War and, of course, both World Wars. Typically, they contain the following details: name ...
Check out all of these digitized records in Collection Search. If you create an account on our website, you can save records of interest. Enter one or more search terms. You don't need to fill in all the boxes. Wildcard character: * (e.g. John* for Johns, Johnsen, Johnson, Johnston, etc.) Surname.
17 de nov. de 2014 · One in six men in the British Empire forces was from India. Who can forget the heroism of Sikhs in the battlefields of World War I. Sikh formed 20% of the Indian Army even though they were only 1% of the Indian population in 1914. Known as the Lions of the Great War after the war, during the war they were often called the Black Lions.
In addition to the war grave agencies there may be other records confirming the death of a person whilst serving in the military. These may take the form of official and private rolls of honour compiled after the First World War. These may be national or local. These might be a war memorial for a town or village or lists of names as rolls of honour dedicated to the men of a particular ...
