Image above: Reichswald Forest British War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany.

7,594 Commonwealth and Allied casualties, mostly RAF and other aircrew. 

 

 

"TELL THEM OF US"*

 

A study of War Cemeteries, War Graves, and the individual stories behind the graves.

 

Curated by

 

Shaun Parkes MA LDPS

 

 

 

*The second line of what is now commonly known as the Kohima Prayer or Kohima Epitaph, commemorating the crucial WW2 battle of Kohima on the India - Myanmar border between April and June 1944, it was originally written at the end of the First World War by a Cambridge scholar and classicist turned wartime codebreaker, John Maxwell Edmonds.

 

 

 

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website

 

Website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission where you can find details of casualties and cemeteries. 

 

 

International Bomber Command Centre Losses Database

 

Website of the International Bomber Command Centre where you can interrogate the Losses Database for casualties and aircraft..