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.
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 Czechoslovak 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
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