Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location	Belgium; France;
Includes	139 locations in two countries
Criteria	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(vi)
Reference	1567
Inscription	2023 (45th Session)

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front of the First World War. On 20 September 2023, UNESCO designated the locations as a World Heritage site.^[1]^[2]

Sites

Belgium

Belgian military cemetery: Houthulst
Belgian military cemetery: Oeren
Canadian national monument: The Brooding Soldier
Commonwealth military cemetery: 1st D.C.L.I. Cemetery, The Bluff
Commonwealth military cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Buff’s Road Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Buttes New British Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Essex farm Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Hedge Row Trench Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Hyde Park Corner Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Larch Wood Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Lijssenthoek military cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Lone Tree Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Mud Corner Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: No Man’s Cot Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Polygon Wood Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Prowse Point Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Rifle House Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Spanbroekmolen British Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Strand Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Toronto Avenue Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Track X Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Commonwealth memorial to the missing Tyne Cot Memorial
Commonwealth military cemetery: Welsh Cemetery (Caesar's Nose)
Commonwealth military cemetery: Woods Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial to the missing: Berks Cemetery Extension and Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing
Commonwealth monument to the missing: Menin Gate
Commonwealth monument to the missing: Nieuport Memorial
Commonwealth-German military cemetery: Saint-Symphorien
Crypt of the Yser tower
Fort of Loncin
French military cemetery: l’Orée de la Forêt
French military cemetery: la Belle Motte
French military cemetery: le Plateau
French military cemetery: Saint-Charles de Potyze
French ossuary: the Kemmel mountain
French-German military cemetery: le Radan
German military cemetery: Langemark
German military cemetery: Vladslo
Irish monument: Island of Ireland Peace Tower
Military plots: Robermont
Plot of the executed: Tamines

France

American military cemetery and memorial: St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial
American military cemetery and memorial: Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial
American military cemetery and memorial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial
Australian national memorial: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial and Commonwealth military cemetery: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
Canadian national memorial: Vimy Memorial
Commonwealth memorials: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial & 29th Division Memorial, Commonwealth memorial park: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial Park and Commonwealth military cemetery Hunter's Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Canadian Cemetery n°2
Commonwealth military cemetery: Étaples Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Le Quesnoy communal Cemetery extension
Commonwealth military cemetery: Lichfield Crater
Commonwealth military cemetery: Louvencourt Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Mill Road Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Noyelles-sur-mer Chinese Cemetery and Chinese memorial Noyelles-sur-mer Chinese Memorial
Commonwealth military cemetery: Rancourt Military Cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery: Wimereux communal cemetery
Commonwealth military cemetery and Australian memorial: V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Dud Corner Cemetery and Loos Memorial
Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Louverval Military Cemetery and Cambrai Memorial
Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Pozières British Cemetery and Pozières Memorial
Commonwealth military cemetery and memorials: Faubourg D’amiens Cemetery, Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial
Commonwealth monument to the missing: Thiepval Memorial and French-Commonwealth military cemetery: Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
Czechoslovakian military cemetery: Neuville-Saint-Vaast
Danish military cemetery: Braine
Fort of Douaumont
French headstones of the executed of Fleury-devant-Douaumont
French memorial: Les fantômes
French memorial of the battles of the Marne
French military cemetery: Germania
French military plot of the dead of November 11, 1918 of Vrigne-Meuse
French Monument-ossuary: Haute-Chevauchée
French municipal cemetery and chapel: Mondement-Montgivroux
French national cemetery: the prisoners of war: Sarrebourg
French national necropolis and chapel: le Souvenir Français of Rancourt
French national necropolis and German military cemetery: la Crouée
French national necropolis: La Grande Tombe de Villeroy
French national necropolis: Assevent & German military cemetery: Assevent
French national necropolis: Cerny-en-Laonnois, German military cemetery: Cerny-en-Laonnois and memorial chapel of le Chemin des Dames
French national necropolis: Chambière
French national necropolis: Compiègne (Royallieu)
French national necropolis: Craonnelle
French national necropolis: Cuts
French national necropolis: Duchesne
French national necropolis: l’Espérance
French national necropolis: l’Opéra
French national necropolis: la Chipotte
French national necropolis: la Fontenelle
French national necropolis: la Forestière
French national necropolis: La Harazée
French national necropolis: la Maize
French national necropolis: la Targette & Commonwealth military cemetery: La Targette British Cemetery
French national necropolis: Lagarde
French national necropolis: le Faubourg Pavé
French national necropolis: le Silberloch, French national monument and crypt of the Hartmannswillerkopf
French national necropolis: Le Sourd & German military cemetery: Le Sourd
French national necropolis: le Trottoir
French national necropolis: le Wettstein
French national necropolis: les Tiges
French national necropolis: Moosch
French national necropolis: Navarin: monument to the dead of the armies of Champagne
French national necropolis: Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
French national necropolis: Pierrepont
French national necropolis: Riche
French national necropolis: Saint-Thomas en Argonne & French national necropolis: the monument-ossuary of la Gruerie
French national necropolis: the 28th brigade La ferme des Wacques
French national necropolis: the monument-ossuary of the French Foreign Legion (Henri Fansworth)
French national necropolis: the prisoners of Effry
French national necropolis: Thiescourt & German military cemetery: Thiescourt
French national necropolis, German military cemetery and Polish military cemetery: le Bois du Puits
French ossuary, French national necropolis, Isrealien monument and Muslim monument: Douaumont (Douaumont Ossuary)
French plot: civilian casualties of Gerbeviller
German and French headstones and tombs: le Petit Donon
German military cemetery: Apremont
German military cemetery: Chestres & French national necropolis: Chestres
German military cemetery: Consenvoye
German military cemetery: Gobessart
German military cemetery: Hohrod-Bärenstall
German military cemetery: Kahm
German military cemetery: l’Hellenwald
German military cemetery: la Maison Blanche
German military cemetery: la Route de Solesmes and Commonwealth military cemetery: Cambrai East Military Cemetery
German military cemetery: Lagarde
German military cemetery: Pierrepont
German military cemetery: Rancourt
German military cemetery: Saint-Quentin & German-French monument: Saint-Quentin
German military cemetery: the Uhlans
German military cemetery: Veslud
German monument: the Saint-Charles cemetery
Indian memorial: the Commonwealth Neuve Chapelle Memorial
Italian military cemetery: Bligny
Portuguese military cemetery: Richebourg-l’Avoué
Roumanian military cemetery: Soultzmatt
Russian military cemetery and chapel: Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand
South-African national memorial: The South Africa (Delville Wood) National Memorial and Commonwealth military cemetery: Delville Wood Cemetery
Trench of the bayonets

References

^ Waterfield, Bruno (21 September 2023). "First World War killing fields get Unesco recognition". The Times. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
^ "Turkish mosques to American Indian earthwork: UNESCO World Heritage List". Daily Sabah. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

External links

Official website

[1] Waterfield, Bruno (21 September 2023). "First World War killing fields get Unesco recognition". The Times. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

[2] "Turkish mosques to American Indian earthwork: UNESCO World Heritage List". Daily Sabah. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

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v t e World Heritage Sites in Belgium
Architectural Work of Le Corbusier¹ Belfries of Belgium and France² Flemish Béguinages Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs Colonies of Benevolence³ Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)⁴ Great Spa Towns of Europe⁵ Historic Centre of Bruges La Grand-Place, Brussels Major Mining Sites of Wallonia Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe⁶ Stoclet House		Flag of Belgium
¹ Listing shared with six other countries, which includes Belgium's Maison Guiette; ² Listing shared with France; ³ Listing shared with the Netherlands, which includes Belgium's Wortel; ⁴ Listing shared with France ⁵ Listing shared with seven other countries, which includes Belgium's Spa; ⁶ Listing shared with seventeen other countries, which includes Belgium's Sonian Forest.

v t e World Heritage Sites in France
Île-de-France	Palace and Park of Versailles Fontainebleau Palace and Park Paris: Banks of the Seine Provins
Parisian basin	Amiens Cathedral Belfries of Belgium and France¹ Bourges Cathedral Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars Chartres Cathedral Climats and terroirs of Burgundy Reims: Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi, Palace of Tau Abbey of Fontenay Le Havre Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay Vézelay Church and hill
Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Belfries of Belgium and France¹ Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
East	Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains and Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans Nancy: Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance Strasbourg: Grande Île, Neustadt Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³
West	Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
South West	Episcopal city, Albi Port of the Moon, Bordeaux Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère valley Pyrénées – Mont Perdu² Saint-Émilion
Centre East	Chaîne des Puys Chauvet Cave Lyon
Mediterranean	Roman and Romanesque monuments, Arles Carcassonne citadel Gulf of Porto: Calanches de Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble, Avignon Bridge Pont du Gard Orange: Roman Theatre and environs, Triumphal Arch
Multiple regions	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Canal du Midi Fortifications of Vauban Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)⁴ Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe⁵
Overseas departments and territories	French Austral Lands and Seas Lagoons of New Caledonia Pitons, cirques and remparts of Réunion Taputapuātea
¹Shared locally with other region/s and with Belgium ²Shared with Spain ³Shared with Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland ⁴Shared with Belgium ⁵Shared with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine