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cemetery authorities, monumental cemeteries are difficult to maintain. While cemeteries often have grassed areas between graves, the layout of graves

patron. The People's Alliance of the German War Graves Care cares for the graves, at 832 cemeteries in 46 countries, of more than 2.7 million persons

enemy action. A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred. They generally

War Graves Commission cemeteries containing mainly dead from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India and Newfoundland, and over 50 memorials, grave sites

School cemeteries "were established informally", resulting in little formal documentation as to their whereabouts. Over time, many cemeteries had been

(2008). Cemeteries of Seattle. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. ISBN 978-1439642306. Rhoads, L. (2017). "Lake View Cemetery". 199 Cemeteries

War Graves Agreement ratified that the Reinterment Commission of the Volksbund could move German bodies from field graves and village cemeteries. During

contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world. American cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain

construct cemeteries in the Falkland Islands for those killed during the Falklands War. Although these cemeteries are not Commonwealth War Graves Commission

were repatriated. There are 1,896 Dutch war graves, 5,085 Commonwealth graves and one non-war grave. Two graves contain the ashes of 300 men who were cremated