Welcome to British War Graves.

 

My interest in the Great War started when I watched the BBC series in the sixties but apart from reading a few books and watching the odd film I never got around to doing anything about it. Then while visiting my Sister in law in Holland I ended up in Arnhem and visited the cemetery at Oosterbeek which is the final resting place of over 1,600 WW2 Servicemen. I found the cemetery very moving and decided I must finally get around to visiting the Great War battlefields. The next visit to the in-laws was preceded by a trip to Ypres in Belgium. After visiting Tyne Cot, attending the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin gate and stopping my youngest daughter kicking around an unexploded shell near the Yorkshire Trench I was hooked. Since then visiting cemeteries and looking for the graves of servicemen and women both at home and abroad has become the norm.

Over the next few years, some like minded friends and I have collected thousands of photographs of British war graves & Family Memorials whilst working as volunteers for the British War Memorial Project. Working as a team we managed to cover most of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire as well as making trips to France and Belgium. The sad demise of the project has left us with a collection of photographs without a legitimate home. As a few of our team still intend to carry on photographing the cemeteries we visit, I decided a way had to be found to make the images available to others. This web site will hopefully be the means to that end.

I claim no grand designs for the site. The photos are available to all whether it is a family member looking for a photo of a relative’s grave or someone researching their local war memorial who wants a photograph for their book. The aim of the site is simply to allow access to the collection.

If the photos are seen then the men whose graves are in the photograph are remembered. Job Done.

Mick McCann

If you would like a copy of a photograph please use the contact form on the main menu.

Copyright.

Copyright shall be retained by the photographer and BWG. By requesting a photograph from the site you agree that the photograph will be for your personal use and will not be sold or forwarded to any other persons.