by clicking on the letters below
you will be taken to the required cemetery listing. e.g.by clicking on the
letter E you will be taken to a listing of all thoses cemeteries & memorial
beginning with the letter E i.e. Etaples Military Cemetery or Euston Road Cemetery.
In
1929 a book called 'The Silent Cities' was published. Compiled by the Imperial
War Graves Commission & Sydney C. Hurst, it contained 959 photographs of war
cemeteries on the Western Front. Its aim was to be a guide to the relatives and
friends of the fallen in the Great War who would wish to make the pilgrimage to
France & Flanders and visit the burial places of the missing.
It is the aim of this site to list (both
with details & photographs) all of the cemeteries and war memorials that are
located in and around the Western Front of 1914 -1918. Using the medium of the
Internet this site aims to bring these "Silent Cities" to your awareness.
The amount of cemeteries listed in Silent Cities numbered 2,485, of
which, as quoted above 959 were photographed. As you might imagine the size of
the task ahead is massive, so please bear with us as we endeavor to complete this
project.
Finally a big thank you must go to the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission whose hard working and dedicated staff make the Western Front such
a moving and wonderful place to visit.
"In
the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can
be more potent advocates of peace upon earth.....than this massed multitude of
silent witnesses to the desolation of war. And I feel that, so long as we have
faith in God's purpose, we cannot but believe that the existence of these visible
memorials will, eventually, serve to draw all peoples together in sanity and self-control,
even as it has already set the relations between our Empire and our allies on
the deep-rooted bases of a common heroism and a common agony".
King
George V (1865 - 1935) Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. 1922
