Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
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How it came to be
The Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) are 139 cemeteries and memorials in Belgium and France. They lie along the Western Front of 1914–1918, about 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border. Soldiers from more than 130 present-day countries fought on this front; over two million were buried there, and several hundred thousand more remain missing or unidentified.
Identified soldiers were given individual graves bearing their names, while the missing were listed alphabetically on memorials and unidentified remains were placed in ossuaries. Many of the sites were designed by architects, botanists, landscape architects and artists, and laid out with lawns and trees.
The components include Tyne Cot Cemetery, the Menin Gate and the German cemetery at Langemark in Belgium, and the Vimy Memorial, the Thiepval Memorial, the Douaumont Ossuary and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in France. Besides Commonwealth, German and American sites, there are cemeteries for Portuguese, Czechoslovak, Indian and Chinese soldiers and workers. The property was inscribed in 2023.
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