Britain and other countries to establish special institutions to manage military personnel killed overseas cemetery
Date:2011-09-23Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
the peach will be located in Yangon, Myanmar soldiers killed in the Commonwealth cemetery. (Commonwealth war cemetery committee website/map)
facilities in the United States War Memorial Committee for the families of soldiers killed in action: Introduction of overseas cemeteries and memorial facilities, to the best route and way around the board and lodging information, cemetery escort, tombstone or missing wall black and white photo, the passport free of charge letter and so on. Each overseas Cemetery Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the U.S. ambassador will participate in local and speech.
35 kilometers north of Yangon, the peach to the cemetery, buried with the young British Air Force lieutenant Simon Eden. This is Burma’s largest cemetery of martyrs buried there 8374 people, by the Commonwealth War Cemetery Commission.
log Commission website can be found Lieutenant Aiden details: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Force 62 camp, died June 23, 1945, 20 years old, service number 199961, was buried in the cemetery peach , cemetery number 25.J.9-12.
his father, Anthony Eden was a later British Prime Minister, but he was not particularly care: the burial ground most of the details can be found on the same site, all tombstone style uniform. 27,000 Commonwealth troops in Burma and did not find the remains of those who sacrifice, the name is engraved on the side of the missing wall.
Commonwealth war cemetery committee
Commonwealth war cemetery committee was established in 1917, is the British aristocracy Fabian Ware proposing the establishment of non-governmental organization. It manages the 2500 cemetery, which was buried there in the two world wars at the expense of the 1.7 million Commonwealth soldiers. Committee is responsible for the management of cemeteries and memorial walls, maintenance, file finishing, based in the UK and in France, Scandinavia, North Africa and other countries set up district offices.
committee funds from Commonwealth member states, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India, according to the number of its cemetery, bear the corresponding proportion of expenditure, of which the UK accounted for nearly eight percent. 2009-2010 fiscal year, the Commission spending more than 51 million pounds.
record of all burial of the dead are: where to find the remains, which transferred to the cemetery, and then accordingly make tombstones. Not found the remains of the 76 million missing names were engraved on the wall. Committee meets to prepare nearly 4,000 new tombstone, burial of the dead discovered, replace the old tombstones.
Commission official website database, there are 170 million people-specific information, 23,000 cemeteries and monuments of the specific address. Martyrs can check information includes: name, rank, service number, burial ground, the unit designation, received medals and date of death, and some have age, origin, family information. Query results can be presented in the form of a certificate to commemorate the above also shows the cemetery to mark the wall or tombstone photos.
UK based information services department has more than 30 employees dedicated to maintaining archives, to provide information to the public consultation. In 2010, the Commission responded to 26,000 inquiries letters, e-mail and telephone, about two million people visit its official website.
facilities in the United States War Memorial Committee
facilities in the United States War Memorial Committee was established by Congress in 1923, responsible for 24 permanent American cemeteries overseas, 25 Memorial facilities (15 in overseas) the design, construction, management and maintenance.
were buried in the cemetery died of their overseas two world wars and the Mexican War 124,909 American soldiers. They are located in France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, the Philippines, the Netherlands and other countries, France accounted for 11. The most famous is the French Normandy American Cemetery, which was built on the cliff, facing the Omaha Beach and the English Channel, a symbol of Normandy.
Cemetery funded by the federal government the burden of the country where the permanent cemetery, to provide land free of charge. In addition to the Philippines, Manila Cemetery, the Commission entered into an agreement with the host country are only allowed U.S. soldiers killed in action and related personnel demeaning. Relatives of the deceased can be determined: First, the burial the U.S. National Cemetery, home of the deceased or relatives of a private cemetery; Second, the burial places of death. Choose the latter, the future can no longer move spirit home. Currently in the Korean War and Vietnam War can be found in all the U.S. military remains the United States have been burial.
tombstone, engraved with the deceased’s name, date of death, rank, unit designation, joined the army time. Missing wall (Tablets of the Missing), and engraved with the missing persons, remains unable to identify the names. In the Commission’s website database, enter a last name, a space, the first letter of the name, you can query the First World War, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War dead, missing information, including burial sites, where the missing wall.
It also provides for the family: introduction of overseas cemeteries and memorial facilities, the best route to the cemetery and the way around the board and lodging information accompanying the cemetery, tombstone or missing wall black and white photo, free passport to prove letters . Each overseas Cemetery Memorial Day ceremony will be held, the U.S. ambassador will participate in local and speech.
70 Commission staff, 50 in 10 countries outside the United States enjoy a competitive salary, pension and allowances abundance.
Russian “motherland forever commemorate the martyrs” Act
the Soviet Army during World War II in Eastern Europe over the tomb, part of the CIS countries and China. Poland, Estonia will have hundreds of cemetery in Germany, 500 cemeteries and monuments, while China has buried nearly 14,500 Soviet troops.
Poland, Germany and China to better protect the Soviet grave. In April 2007, the Soviet monument in Estonia forced relocation, bronze statue, causing an uproar in Russia nationwide. Putin quickly signed the “eternal memory of the motherland martyrs” law to protect the tomb of Soviet overseas. Under the Act, Memorial Center will organize a Russian military, including China, seven overseas offices, covering 14 countries, responsible for search and martyrs cemetery clean-up registration information. Department directly under the Russian Defense Ministry, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs co.
the same year, China and Russia signed an agreement: in China the Soviet cemetery and memorial building demolition, only as a last resort and only after Russia agreed to consent. China will take measures to ensure that the Soviet cemetery in good condition, and bear the cemetery maintenance, landscaping and cleaning of all expenses.
Putin’s 2006 victims of the Great Patriotic War Memorial Act and previous related commands, the Russian Defense Ministry has also established a contains the Great Patriotic War, modern war martyrs database, easy to find friends and relatives. Database provides more than 130,000 copies of archival documents, 30 million copies cemetery photos, you can display the time of death the deceased, the cause and burial land. Data from the Department of Defense Naval Central Archives, National Archives and its regional offices.
(compiled from the official website of the relevant committee and media)
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