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Canadian War Graves Commission
June 29, 2016
On Wednesday, June 29, 2016, the Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, and the Canadian delegation visited the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Commission marks and maintains Commonwealth graves from both the First and Second World Wars. Included in this mandate is the commemoration of some 1.7 million war dead in over 150 countries. Of this number, more than 935,000 have known graves and are buried in one of the Commission’s 2,500 war cemeteries or plots or within some 20,000 other burial grounds worldwide.
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The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs, and the Canadian delegation observe as Mr. Richard Nichol, Operations Director, shows a map of all the sites maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Photo: Julien Faure
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Mr. Richard Nichol, Operations Director, gives an explanation of the type of stone used in Commonwealth War Graves Commission sites around the world.
Photo: Julien Faure
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Canadian Veteran Greg (Quib) Goudie, Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada (ANAVETS), at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Photo: Julien Faure
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A Canadian headstone being engraved.
Photo: Julien Faure
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