The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) aims to commemorate the UK and Commonwealth dead of the World Wars, either by maintaining a war grave in a cemetery, or where there is no known grave, by listing the dead on a memorial to the missing.Some of those named on memorials to the missing will have been buried as "unknowns", with a gravestone marked "Known Unto God", but the bodies of many of those commemorated on these memorials were never recovered, could not be recovered, or no remains were left to be recovered.
The majority of the memorials commissioned by the CWGC to commemorate the missing dead of World War I were erected in Belgium and France along or near to the Western Front. The following list is of the CWGC memorials to the missing of the First World War erected elsewhere, both in the UK and other regions of the worlds, limited to those that list more than 1000 names each.
The total from the 'numbers' column below of those listed on these memorials is 138,062.
List of memorials + Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) World War I memorialsArticle and referencePictureCountryLocationCo-ordinatesNumber listedDescription of those listedDates coveredMajor battlesDate unveiledMemorial designerMemorial unveiled by Basra Memorial
CWGC Iraq Basra 40,625 UK and British Empire forces Autumn 1914 to end of August 1921 Mesopotamia Campaign Edward Warren Gilbert Clayton Helles Memorial
CWGC Turkey Cape Helles 20,884 British, Indian and Australian forces April 1915 to January 1916 Gallipoli Campaign John James Burnet not specified India Gate
CWGC India New Delhi 13,216 British Empire and Indian forces entire war and to 1921 North-West Frontier and Third Afghan War Edwin Lutyens Lord Irwin Tower Hill Memorial
CWGC United Kingdom London 12,210 Mercantile Marine entire war naval transport and convoys Edwin Lutyens Queen Mary Portsmouth Naval Memorial
CWGC United Kingdom Portsmouth 9,667 Royal Navy entire war naval campaigns Robert Lorimer Duke of York Chatham Naval Memorial
CWGC United Kingdom Chatham 8,517 Royal Navy entire war naval campaigns Robert Lorimer Prince of Wales Plymouth Naval Memorial
CWGC United Kingdom Plymouth 7,251 Royal Navy entire war naval campaigns Robert Lorimer Prince George Lone Pine Memorial
CWGC Turkey Gallipoli Peninsula 4,932 Australian and New Zealand servicemen mostly May to August 1915 Battle of Lone Pine John James Burnet no official unveiling Port Tewfik Memorial
CWGC Egypt Port Suez 3,727 British Indian Army 1915 to 1918 Sinai and Palestine Campaign John James Burnet Lord Lloyd Tehran MemorialCWGC Iran Tehran 3,580 UK, Indian and New Zealand forces December 1914 to October 1918 Persian Campaign not specified not specified not specified Jerusalem Memorial
CWGC Israel Jerusalem 3,308 Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1915 to 1918 Sinai and Palestine Campaign John James Burnet Lord Allenby and James Parr Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial
CWGC picture India Mumbai 2,206 Indian, Adenese and East African sailors and Royal Indian Marine entire war naval campaigns and transport not specified not specified not specified Doiran Memorial
CWGC Greece Doirani 2,171 British Salonika Force October 1915 to November 1918 Salonika Campaign Robert Lorimer George Macdonogh Hollybrook Memorial
CWGC picture United Kingdom Southampton 1,897 Land and air forces lost at sea entire war SS Mendi and other ships T. Newham William Robertson Dar es Salaam British and Indian Memorial
CWGC picture Tanzania Dar es Salaam 1,528 British Empire and Indian forces during and after January 1917 East African Campaign not specified not specified not specified Nairobi British and Indian Memorial
CWGC picture Kenya Nairobi 1,234 British Empire and Indian forces before January 1917 East African Campaign not specified not specified not specified Freetown Memorial
CWGC picture Sierra Leone Freetown 1,109 West African Frontier Force entire war Campaigns in West Africa not specified not specified not specified East African Memorials
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CWGC Kenya and Tanzania Mombasa, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam noneThe number commemorated by the three East African memorials at Mombasa, Nairobi, and Dar es Salaam is 49,572, but as no complete record of the names of the dead exists, no names appear on the memorials. King's African Rifles and Carrier Corps entire war East African Campaign not specified not specified not specified
See also List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War II memorials to the missing
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