David Amess – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Amess on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many graves are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, by (a) cemetery and (b) country.

Anna Soubry

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission ensures that the 1.7 million people who died in the two world wars will never be forgotten. The Commission cares for cemeteries and memorials at 23,000 locations, in 153 countries. It is therefore not possible to list every cemetery in this answer. Detailed and searchable information on the numbers of graves at each location in every relevant country is available on the Commission’s website: http://www.cwgc.org/