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A listing of more Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing, to be turned into a list similar to the ones for the Western Front of WWI and the list for WWII.

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These are the memorials with 3000+ names listed.

In addition, there are the identical memorials in Kenya (Mombasa and Nairobi) and Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) to the native troops and non-combatant forces who died in the war, numbering 49,572.

Six more to add

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Memorial types

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Footnotes and/or article text for:

  • Connected memorials (same campaign).
  • Naval and maritime memorials
  • Single campaign memorials
  • National/regional/regimental memorials
  • Memorials to labour forces/native troops
  • Cremation memorials
  • Shipping memorials
  • Relocation/concentration/unmaintainable graves memorials
  • Destroyed/rebuilt/moved memorials

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  • A pair is formed by [12] and [13] for the East Africa Campaign and the missing of the British and Indian forces.
  • The Doiran Memorial in Greece ([14]) marks the Salonika Campaign.

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New notes

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  • A number of memorials are cremation memorials to Indian forces.
  • Some memorials are for those lost at sea on troop or buried at sea on hospital ships (e.g. Chatby Memorial and Mikra Memorial). The ones where a named ship is identified can be linked to that.