Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) explained

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Includes:	139 locations in two countries
Criteria:	(iii)(iv)(vi)
Id:	1567
Year:	2023

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front of the First World War. On 20 September 2023, UNESCO designated the locations as a World Heritage site.^{[1] [2]}

Sites

Belgium

• Belgian military cemetery: Houthulst
• Belgian military cemetery: Oeren
• Canadian national monument: The Brooding Soldier
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: 1st D.C.L.I. Cemetery, The Bluff Commonwealth military cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Buff’s Road Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Buttes New British Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Essex farm Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Hedge Row Trench Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Hyde Park Corner Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Larch Wood Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Lijssenthoek military cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Lone Tree Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Mud Corner Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: No Man’s Cot Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Polygon Wood Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Prowse Point Military Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Rifle House Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Spanbroekmolen British Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Strand Military Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Toronto Avenue Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Track X Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Commonwealth memorial to the missing Tyne Cot Memorial Commonwealth military cemetery: Welsh Cemetery (Caesar's Nose)
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Woods Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial to the missing: Berks Cemetery Extension and Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing Commonwealth monument to the missing: Menin Gate
• Commonwealth monument to the missing: Nieuport Memorial
• Commonwealth-German military cemetery: Saint-Symphorien
• Crypt of the Yser tower
• Fort of Loncin
• French military cemetery: l’Orée de la Forêt
• French military cemetery: la Belle Motte
• French military cemetery: le Plateau
• French military cemetery: Saint-Charles de Potyze
• French ossuary: the Kemmel mountain
• French-German military cemetery: le Radan
• German military cemetery: Langemark
• German military cemetery: Vladslo
• Irish monument: Island of Ireland Peace Tower
• Military plots: Robermont
• Plot of the executed: Tamines

France

• American military cemetery and memorial: St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial
• American military cemetery and memorial: Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial
• American military cemetery and memorial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial
• Australian national memorial: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial and Commonwealth military cemetery: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
• Canadian national memorial: Vimy Memorial
• Commonwealth memorials: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial & 29th Division Memorial, Commonwealth memorial park: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial Park and Commonwealth military cemetery Hunter's Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Canadian Cemetery n°2 Commonwealth military cemetery: Étaples Military Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Le Quesnoy communal Cemetery extension Commonwealth military cemetery: Lichfield Crater
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Louvencourt Military Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Mill Road Cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery: Noyelles-sur-mer Chinese Cemetery and Chinese memorial Noyelles-sur-mer Chinese Memorial
  • Commonwealth military cemetery: Rancourt Military Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Wimereux communal cemetery
• Commonwealth military cemetery and Australian memorial: V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
• Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Dud Corner Cemetery and Loos Memorial
• Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Louverval Military Cemetery and Cambrai Memorial
• Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Pozières British Cemetery and Pozières Memorial
• Commonwealth military cemetery and memorials: Faubourg D’amiens Cemetery, Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial
• Commonwealth monument to the missing: Thiepval Memorial and French-Commonwealth military cemetery: Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
• Czechoslovakian military cemetery: Neuville-Saint-Vaast
• Danish military cemetery: Braine
  • Fort of Douaumont French headstones of the executed of Fleury-devant-Douaumont
• French memorial: Les fantômes
• French memorial of the battles of the Marne
• French military cemetery: Germania
• French military plot of the dead of November 11, 1918 of Vrigne-Meuse
• French Monument-ossuary: Haute-Chevauchée
• French municipal cemetery and chapel: Mondement-Montgivroux
• French national cemetery: the prisoners of war: Sarrebourg
• French national necropolis and chapel: le Souvenir Français of Rancourt
• French national necropolis and German military cemetery: la Crouée
• French national necropolis: La Grande Tombe de Villeroy
• French national necropolis: Assevent & German military cemetery: Assevent
• French national necropolis: Cerny-en-Laonnois, German military cemetery: Cerny-en-Laonnois and memorial chapel of le Chemin des Dames
• French national necropolis: Chambière
• French national necropolis: Compiègne (Royallieu)
• French national necropolis: Craonnelle
• French national necropolis: Cuts
• French national necropolis: Duchesne
• French national necropolis: l’Espérance
• French national necropolis: l’Opéra
• French national necropolis: la Chipotte
• French national necropolis: la Fontenelle
• French national necropolis: la Forestière
• French national necropolis: La Harazée
• French national necropolis: la Maize
• French national necropolis: la Targette & Commonwealth military cemetery: La Targette British Cemetery
• French national necropolis: Lagarde
• French national necropolis: le Faubourg Pavé
• French national necropolis: le Silberloch, French national monument and crypt of the Hartmannswillerkopf
• French national necropolis: Le Sourd & German military cemetery: Le Sourd
• French national necropolis: le Trottoir
• French national necropolis: le Wettstein
• French national necropolis: les Tiges
• French national necropolis: Moosch
• French national necropolis: Navarin: monument to the dead of the armies of Champagne
  • French national necropolis: Notre-Dame-de-Lorette French national necropolis: Pierrepont
• French national necropolis: Riche
• French national necropolis: Saint-Thomas en Argonne & French national necropolis: the monument-ossuary of la Gruerie
• French national necropolis: the 28th brigade La ferme des Wacques
• French national necropolis: the monument-ossuary of the French Foreign Legion (Henri Fansworth)
• French national necropolis: the prisoners of Effry
• French national necropolis: Thiescourt & German military cemetery: Thiescourt
• French national necropolis, German military cemetery and Polish military cemetery: le Bois du Puits
• French ossuary, French national necropolis, Isrealien monument and Muslim monument: Douaumont (Douaumont Ossuary)
• French plot: civilian casualties of Gerbeviller
• German and French headstones and tombs: le Petit Donon
• German military cemetery: Apremont
• German military cemetery: Chestres & French national necropolis: Chestres
• German military cemetery: Consenvoye
• German military cemetery: Gobessart
• German military cemetery: Hohrod-Bärenstall
• German military cemetery: Kahm
• German military cemetery: l’Hellenwald
• German military cemetery: la Maison Blanche
• German military cemetery: la Route de Solesmes and Commonwealth military cemetery: Cambrai East Military Cemetery
• German military cemetery: Lagarde
• German military cemetery: Pierrepont
• German military cemetery: Rancourt
• German military cemetery: Saint-Quentin & German-French monument: Saint-Quentin
• German military cemetery: the Uhlans
• German military cemetery: Veslud
• German monument: the Saint-Charles cemetery
  • Indian memorial: the Commonwealth Neuve Chapelle Memorial Italian military cemetery: Bligny
• Portuguese military cemetery: Richebourg-l’Avoué
• Roumanian military cemetery: Soultzmatt
• Russian military cemetery and chapel: Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand
• South-African national memorial: The South Africa (Delville Wood) National Memorial and Commonwealth military cemetery: Delville Wood Cemetery
• Trench of the bayonets

Notes and References

1. News: Waterfield . Bruno . First World War killing fields get Unesco recognition . 22 September 2023 . . 21 September 2023.
2. News: Turkish mosques to American Indian earthwork: UNESCO World Heritage List . 22 September 2023 . Daily Sabah . 21 September 2023.