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

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]

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location
Includes139 locations in two countries
CriteriaCultural: (iii)(iv)(vi)
Reference1567
Inscription2023 (45th Session)

Sites

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Belgium

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France

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  • 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

References

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  1. ^ Waterfield, Bruno (21 September 2023). "First World War killing fields get Unesco recognition". The Times. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Turkish mosques to American Indian earthwork: UNESCO World Heritage List". Daily Sabah. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
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