The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states; United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces killed during the two World Wars.[1] In this capacity, the Commission is responsible for the commemoration of 1.7 million Commonwealth servicemen and women in 150 countries worldwide.
Country | Burial grounds | Identified war graves |
Unidentified war graves |
Non-war graves | Commemorated on memorials |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albania | 2 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Algeria | 13 | 2,041 | 122 | 71 | 0 |
Antigua | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Argentina | 2 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Australia | 877 | 11,454 | 14 | 7 | 1,037 |
Austria | 2 | 583 | 16 | 58 | 0 |
Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 |
Azores | 3 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Bahamas | 1 | 51 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
Bahrain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 0 |
Bangladesh [Note 1] | 3 | 1,415 | 27 | 5 | 0 |
Barbados | 9 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belgium | 613 | 102,501 | 48,582 | 60 | 102,349 |
Belize | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 40 |
Bermuda | 12 | 140 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Botswana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162 |
Brazil | 5 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
British Indian Ocean Territory | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bulgaria | 2 | 240 | 3 | 12 | 0 |
Cameroon | 3 | 47 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Canada | 2,814 | 14,299 | 11 | 1 | 4,127 |
Canary Islands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Cape Verde | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chad | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chile | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
China [Note 2] | 22 | 1,833 | 621 | 1,963 | 4,578 |
Republic of the Congo | 1 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Costa Rica | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Croatia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Cuba | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cyprus | 9 | 321 | 3 | 606 | 58 |
Czech Republic | 2 | 223 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
Denmark | 130 | 999 | 117 | 0 | 0 |
Djibouti | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dominica | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Egypt | 24 | 24,651 | 1,335 | 4,551 | 27,803 |
Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eritrea | 5 | 953 | 49 | 25 | 0 |
Estonia | 2 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Ethiopia | 4 | 409 | 12 | 60 | 0 |
Falkland Islands | 1 | 33 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
Faroe Islands | 4 | 56 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Fiji | 2 | 75 | 0 | 3 | 34 |
France | 2,919 | 356,967 | 116,460 | 481 | 217,829 |
Gambia | 1 | 199 | 4 | 10 | 70 |
Germany | 48 | 31,750 | 1,372 | 4,813 | 25 |
Ghana | 7 | 612 | 3 | 57 | 1,220 |
Gibraltar | 2 | 653 | 2 | 1 | 98 |
Greece | 31 | 12,397 | 2,361 | 1,101 | 5,667 |
Grenada | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Guatemala | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guinea | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guyana | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 18 |
Honduras | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hungary | 3 | 173 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Iceland | 6 | 232 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
India [Note 1] | 23 | 10,995 | 521 | 203 | 51,150 |
Indonesia | 6 | 2,605 | 657 | 10 | 444 |
Iran | 1 | 551 | 13 | 14 | 3,588 |
Iraq | 15 | 12,816 | 9,376 | 1,164 | 41,091 |
Republic of Ireland | 658 | 2,939 | 53 | 15 | 156 |
Israel [Note 3] | 29 | 11,991 | 2,581 | 748 | 3,400 |
Italy | 123 | 44,783 | 1,911 | 156 | 4,471 |
Jamaica | 8 | 153 | 0 | 1 | 79 |
Japan | 2 | 1,718 | 93 | 173 | 20 |
Jordan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
Kenya [Note 4] | 32 | 4,183 | 77 | 316 | 4,024 |
Latvia | 1 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Lebanon | 5 | 1,705 | 12 | 9 | 0 |
Lesotho | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,001 |
Liberia | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Libya | 6 | 7,056 | 1,460 | 556 | 0 |
Lithuania | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Luxembourg | 8 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Macedonia | 1 | 118 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Madagascar | 1 | 311 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Madeira | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Malawi | 6 | 209 | 2 | 12 | 125 |
Malaysia | 34 | 2,320 | 2,655 | 2,153 | 2,294 |
Maldives | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
Mali | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malta | 13 | 3,376 | 9 | 3,689 | 2,350 |
Martinique | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mauritania | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mauritius | 4 | 37 | 0 | 74 | 57 |
Monaco | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Morocco | 5 | 61 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
Mozambique | 6 | 185 | 7 | 1 | 93 |
Myanmar | 5 | 10,945 | 1,107 | 12 | 26,902 |
Namibia | 40 | 427 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nepal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Netherlands | 476 | 18,265 | 1,262 | 11 | 1,035 |
Netherlands Antilles | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
New Caledonia | 1 | 242 | 4 | 449 | |
New Zealand | 435 | 2,909 | 1 | 569 | |
Nigeria | 32 | 983 | 29 | 3,669 | |
Norfolk Island | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Norway | 74 | 955 | 193 | 0 | |
Oman | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Pakistan [Note 1] | 2 | 999 | 0 | 569 | |
Panama | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
Papua New Guinea | 7 | 6,145 | 1,645 | 2,284 | |
Peru | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Philippines | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Poland | 3 | 1,131 | 54 | 44 | |
Portugal | 5 | 51 | 0 | 0 | |
Puerto Rico | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Romania | 3 | 170 | 8 | 0 | |
Russia | 5 | 365 | 4 | 243 | |
Samoa | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
San Marino | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Senegal | 2 | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
Serbia | 3 | 494 | 16 | 0 | |
Seychelles | 1 | 76 | 0 | 289 | |
Sierra Leone | 4 | 444 | 9 | 1,391 | |
Singapore | 4 | 4,458 | 858 | 24,675 | |
Society Islands | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Solomon Islands | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Somalia[Note 5] | 2 | 280 | 22 | 317 | |
South Africa | 591 | 8,311 | 20 | 130 | |
Spain | 19 | 108 | 6 | 0 | |
Sri Lanka | 11 | 1,653 | 11 | 344 | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Saint Helena and Ascension | 2 | 21 | 2 | 0 | |
Saint Lucia | 1 | 44 | 0 | 0 | |
Saint Vincent | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
Sudan | 1 | 395 | 0 | 1,346 | |
Swaziland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 77 | |
Sweden | 11 | 149 | 47 | 0 | |
Switzerland | 1 | 136 | 0 | 0 | |
Syria | 2 | 1,274 | 132 | 10 | |
Tanzania [Note 4] | 12 | 3,271 | 87 | 51,655 | |
Thailand | 2 | 6,323 | 188 | 11 | |
Togo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Tonga | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 105 | 0 | 40 | |
Tunisia | 11 | 7,750 | 810 | 1,954 | |
Turkey | 37 | 9,487 | 13,461 | 27,161 | |
Uganda | 10 | 373 | 2 | 127 | |
Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
United Kingdom [Note 6] | 12,359 | 171,027 | 1,401 | 133,119 | |
United States | 471 | 992 | 4 | 0 | |
Uruguay | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
Vanuatu | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Venezuela | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Yemen | 1 | 296 | 3 | 76 | |
Zambia | 1 | 70 | 0 | 661 | |
Zimbabwe | 21 | 542 | 8 | 132 |