Military Cemeteries

Images of military cemeteries featuring rows of gravestones set in lush green landscapes, highlighting solemnity and remembrance.

Franklin, Tennessee. The Confederate cemetery at Carnton Manor, 1500 graves are the result of the Battle of Franklin. (Large format sizes available)
Franklin, Tennessee. The Confederate cemetery at Carnton Manor, 1500 graves are the result of the Battle of Franklin. (Large format sizes available)
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Vintage Photograph. Arlington Cemetery gravesites.
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Thailand, , Kanchanaburi, Allied War Cemetery at River Kwai Bridge
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Crystal Jones, whose husband is currently serving in the military, and her family lay red roses at the graves of fallen service members as part of the Flower on every Grave annual event with Victory for Veterans on Memorial Day, May 30, 2022, at Central Texas State Veteran Cemetery, Killeen, Texas. Memorial Day was established in 1971 as a way to honor those who served the United States and have paid the ultimate price.
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Bermuda. Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom - Main Island. Royal Naval Cemetery, 19th century
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U.S. Military Members from U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, U.S.Army Garrison Italy, Aviano Air Base, Camp Darby Military Community and Military Vaterans honored their comrades who lost their life for our freedom, at Florence Memorial Cemetery, Italy, May 30, 2022. Consul General of the United States in Florence, Ragini Gupta read the Presidential Proclamation to open the commemoration ceremony. Guests of honor were the United States Ambassador for the Holy See Joseph Donnelly, the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa Commander, and the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Deputy Commanding General, Major Gen. Andrew Rohling, and the Italian Deputy Minister of Defense, Honorable Stefania Pucciarelli.
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Memorial Day War Cemetery Reminder to the Victims From War and Violence 1131600760
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Second picture in staff photographer Fred Carew's pictorial diary of his recent New Guinea tour shows the Bomana War Cemetery, 15 miles from Port Moresby.Here, amongst the foothills of the Owen Stanleys, lie several thousand Australian soldiers who fell in Bougainville, at Milne Bay, and Soputa, and along the Kokoda Trail.Native boys, under white supervision, tend the lawns and drives, and the area is being beautified by the planting of gardens and trees. In this cemetery is the grave of Corporal Jack French, who won the first V.C. awarded in the Southwest Pacific Area. November 11, 1949.
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First World War One graves at the Etaples Military Cemetery, largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery in France
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Montana, Little Big Horn National Monument. Grave Marker For Fallen U.S. Soldier, 7Th Cavalry. June 26, 1876.
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American War Cemetary, Colleville sur Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe
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110214-N-5758H-224ANGELES CITY, Philippines (Feb. 14, 2011) Yeoman 2nd Class William S. Herbst, assigned to the embarked staff aboard the U.S. 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), weeds grave stones at Clark Cemetery during a community service project. Blue Ridge is in Manila for a scheduled port visit during a spring patrol.
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Soldiers place flags on graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
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British military cemetery
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USA, Virginia, Aerial photograph of Arlington National Cemetery
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Master Sgt. Robert Connolly plays "Taps" during the remembrance ceremony for the Khobar Towers bombing on Sunday, June 25, at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. Family members and friends of the 19 Airmen killed in the terrorist bombing at Dhahran Air Base, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996, gathered for the ceremony. Sergeant Connolly is a member of the Air Force Band at Bolling Air Force Base, D.C.
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A tent city set up for enlisted personnel during the joint Australian/New Zealand/US Exercise PITCH BLACK '84. Subject Operation/Series: PITCH BLACK '84 Base: Darwin State: Northern Territory Country: Australia (AUS)
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War Cemetery Jerusalem
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ARLINGTON, Va. (May 2, 2013) An Sailor plays "Taps" during the graveside interment ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery for four Sailors killed during the Vietnam War. Lt. Dennis Peterson, from Huntington Park, Calif.; Ensign Donald Frye, from Los Angeles; and Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technicians 2nd Class William Jackson, from Stockdale, Texas, and Donald McGrane, from Waverly, Iowa, all four assigned to Helicopter Squadron (HS) 2, were killed when their SH-3A Sea King helicopter was shot down July 19, 1967 over Ha Nam Province, North Vietnam.
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Headstones of many unknown confederate soldiers at the Enterprise Confederate Cemetery in Enterprise, Mississippi, USA.
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oklahoma memorial
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A bugler from the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" plays taps at the burial service Jan. 28, 2009, in Arlington National Cemetery for former Sgt. Maj. of the Army William G. Bainbridge.
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War Graves, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Kanchanaburi, the graves of the allied soldiers who built the railway in World War Two.
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The British Military Cemetery in Bavaria, Germany
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Picture at Australian soldier's grave at the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, largest First World War One hospital cemetery in the Ypres Salient, Poperinge, Belgium, Europe
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National cemetery. Arlington, Va. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Virginia, Arlington (Va.)
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Robert F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA. (Editorial Use Only)
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Kranji Military Cemetery, Singapore
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Volunteers participate in the Wreaths Across America annual removal of wreaths, commonly known as Wreaths Out, in Section 12 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 20, 2024. This year, nearly 3,000 volunteers removed approximately 260,000 wreaths originally placed at ANC on Dec. 16, 2023.
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MT, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Headstone markers on Last Stand Hill; Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer fell here June 25, 1876
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Snow falls in Section 66 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 3, 2022. This was the first snow of the year.
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National Cemetery 9, Hopewell, Va. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Headstone of 15 year old Joe Strudwick, one of the youngest British First World War One casualties at the Essex Farm Cemetery near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe
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Inscription made of cartridge shells on a grave to the unknown soldiers of the Boer War, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa
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National Cemetery 9, Hopewell, Va. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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UK, England, London. A veteran of the First World War planting a ceramic poppy at Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, marking one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War.
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German War Cemetary Golm
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World War II Commonwealth War Graves, Alamein, Egypt
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Fellen monument Stuppach with Lustbronn and Lillstadt, city of Bad Mergentheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg Inscription: Victim of the municipalities Stuppach Lillstadt and Lustbronn In the two world wars. Whoever harbors the future, 63 German SODALLES You fell on April 6, 1945.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by Scott Desjardins, Superintendent of the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Luxembourgian Prime Minister Xavier Bettel; and U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg David McKean, stand at the grave of U.S. Army General George S. Patton on July 17, 2016, as they tour the site following two days of bilateral meetings with government officials.
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020527-F-3873G-017. Base: Cambridge American Cemetery State: Cambridgeshire Country: United Kingdom (UK)
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A Canadian Army soldier, from Lord Strathcona's Horse Royal Canadians, wears a poppy flower during a Remembrance Day ceremony inside the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation building, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Nov. 11, 2022. The poppy flower symbolizes the same ones that bloomed on the European battlefields of World War I. Distinguished visitors, veterans, friends, and family members gathered at the MWR building to commemorate all wars and honor the service of armed forces past and present.
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Memorial to those British soldiers who died at Rorke's Drift during the Anglo Zulu War of 1879. Near Dundee. kwaZulu-Natal. South Africa
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Royal Munster Fusiliers regimental badge on headstone at Cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for First World War One British soldiers
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Poppies on the War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday in East Grinstead
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First World War cemetery of Chinese labourers at Noyelles-sur-Mer, Bay of the Somme, Picardy, France, Europe
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War graves in the War Martyrs Cemetery in Ia Grai, Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.The graves mainly contain the remains of local ethnic minority men who dies in the Vietnam War against the US in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as soldiers who died fighting the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1980s.war cemeteries can be found all over Vietnam following various wars in the second half of the 20th century.
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Grave of unknown soldier
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Grave of unknown soldier
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Grave of an unknown soldier at the military cemetery in Oderbrueck in the Harz Mountains
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Commonwealth War Graves sign outside Syderstone Church in Norfolk.