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A war grave is a burial place for soldiers or civilians who died during military campaigns or operations. The term does not only apply to graves
Grave (burial)

A grave is a place where a dead body is burial. The grave is usually in a graveyard or cemetery.Graves may contain objects that provide clues for archaeology about the life and culture of the time....
: ships sunk during wartime are often considered to be war graves, as are military aircraft that crash into water.






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Civil War Graves
A war grave is a burial place for soldiers or civilians who died during military campaigns or operations. The term does not only apply to graves
Grave (burial)

A grave is a place where a dead body is burial. The grave is usually in a graveyard or cemetery.Graves may contain objects that provide clues for archaeology about the life and culture of the time....
: ships sunk during wartime are often considered to be war graves, as are military aircraft that crash into water. Classification of a war grave is not limited to the occupier's death in combat, but includes soldiers who die while in active service: for example, during the Crimean War
Crimean War

The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Oriental War was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other....
, more soldiers died of disease than as a result of enemy action.

A common difference between cemeteries
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 of war graves and those of civilian, peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred. They generally died during a relatively short period, in a small geographic area and consist of young men often from the few military units involved.

In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, 58 ship wrecks and all underwater military aircraft are protected as war graves under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986
Protection of Military Remains Act 1986

The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which provides protection for the wreckage of military aircraft and designated military shipwreck....
 which imposes restrictions on their exploration and marine salvage
Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo, or other property from peril. Salvage encompasses rescue towing, refloating a sunken or grounded vessel, or patching or repairing a ship....
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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an England poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the World War I ; however, he never experienced combat at first hand....
's poem, The Soldier
The Soldier (poem)

The Soldier is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is actually the fifth of a series of poems entitled 1914 .It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 anti-war poem Dulce Et Decorum Est...
 - "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England", is a patriotic poem about the possibility of dying abroad during a war. Brooke is himself buried in a war grave on Skyros
Skyros

Skyros is the southernmost island of the Sporades, a Greece archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros....
 in the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
, having died whilst en route to fight in the Gallipoli Campaign
Battle of Gallipoli

The Gallipoli Campaign took place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the World War I. A joint British Empire and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman Empire capital of Constantinople , and secure a sea route to Russia....
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The British War Memorial Project, founded in 2001, aims to create an archive of names and photographs of all Commonwealth military graves and memorials from 1914 to the present day.

See also

  • Burial at sea
    Burial at sea

    Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of body in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat....
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    Commonwealth War Graves Commission

    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a joint governmental organisation responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of members of the Commonwealth of Nations' military forces that died in the two world wars, to build memorials to those with no known grave, and to keep records of the war dead....
  • National cemetery
  • The Unknown Warrior
    The Unknown Warrior

    The United Kingdom tomb of The Unknown Warrior holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during World War I. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on November 11, 1920, simultaneously with a similar operation in France, making both tombs the first honouring the unknown dead of World War I....
  • Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
    Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

    Throughout history, many soldiers have died in wars without their remains being identified. In modern times, nations have developed the practice of having a symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier that represents the war grave of those unidentified soldiers....
  • War memorial
    War memorial

    A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or to commemorate those who died or were injured in war....
  • Wreck diving
    Wreck diving

    Wreck diving is a type of recreational diving where shipwrecks are explored. Although most wreck dive sites are at shipwrecks, there is an increasing trend to Sinking ships for wreck diving sites....


Sources

  • Major and Mrs Holt's battlefield guide to the Ypres Salient ISBN 0-85052-551-9
  • The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 Order no 2008/950