Original records for the full 1.7 million individuals commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission were revealed to the public for the first time in August 2015. Following the release of First World War Casualty Archive Documents in 2014, the CWGC has now released the Second World War records to coincide with the 70th anniversary of VJ Day.
The additional documents greatly enhance the collection of records and researchers can now discover more about their relatives who fought and died during the two world wars.
The records are available through the “Casualty Search” option on the CWGC website and they offer a unique insight into the process of commemoration undertaken by the CWGC after the wars. If you have previously downloaded documents from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website concerning a war casualty, be sure to go back and look again now that these additional records have been added.