War Memorials and Remembrance Sites

Various memorials commemorating fallen soldiers, featuring crosses, statues, and inscriptions as tributes to sacrifice and valor across different regions.

The World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C, USA.

France, Hauts de France, Aisne, Chemin des Dames. Memorial

The Memorial to the 24th Regiment at Rorke's Drift. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa

England, London, Horse Guards Parade. The Guards Memorial in London.

A wreath and flower arrangement are displayed at the tombs of former President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum following a wreath laying ceremony conducted by Sailors assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), September 1, 2022. Twelve Ford Sailors traveled to Michigan for the ships annual namesake visit to learn about the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford and connect with local community members in Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and Albion, Michigan.

KZ Memorial Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Bergen-Belsen

ENGLAND, Hampshire, Portsmouth, World War Two Naval memorial on Southsea seafront designed by Sir Edmund Maufe with sculpture by Sir Charles Wheeler of a sailor holding a pair of binoculars with the Roll Of Honour listing the fallen beyond.

Memorial Corridor of Amerian WWII soldiers located in Fort Bonifacio, Tagulg City, Metro Manila, Philippines

The World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C, USA.

Memorial of the heroic defense of Odessa, Ukraine Odessa, Ukraine. 25.08.2022. Memorial of the heroic defense of Odessa, Ukraine, on a sunny summer day. Coastal artillery no. 411 in World War 2 Copyright: xZoonar.com/Multipediax 19035823

Soldiers' cemetery and war memorial, Verdun, Departement Meuse, France, Europe

The Belgian Military Cemetery Houthulst with graves of Belgian soldiers of the First World War, Belgium, Europe

Headstones at the Bretteville-surLaize Canadian war Cemetery in France

War Memorial to the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company at Hill 60, World War One site at Zillebeke, Belgium, Europe

Arlington cemetery The memorial of JF Kennedy in Arlington cemetery, Washington Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 7699028

Ceremonial wreaths are placed before the Eternal Light Flagstaff at Madison Square Park before the New York City Veterans Day Parade, New York, Nov. 11, 2022. Ceremonial wreath laying's occur during Veterans Day to pay formal respects to the sacrifices of America's veterans.

Soldiers' graves 1917, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

The Belgian Military Cemetery Houthulst with graves of Belgian soldiers of the First World War, Belgium, Europe

Former mourning on the Memorial Day

Soldiers' graves 1917, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

USA, Washington D.C. (District of Columbia). Reflection of the American flag on a rainy day at Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (Editorial Use Only)

A U.S. Air Force color guard assigned to the 129th Rescue Wing, California Air National Guard, at Moffett Air National Guard Base near Mountain View, Calif., unveils a California State Guard memorial plaque at The Flame of Liberty Memorial, Los Gatos, Calif., Sept. 11, 2022. Hosted by The Veterans Memorial & Support Foundation, the memorial ceremony honored the men and women who lost their lives and honored the first responders who sacrifice their lives. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Tech. Sgt. Deepak Prasad)

Flowers are placed for fallen Polish soldiers at Citadel Park in Poznan, Poland, Feb. 23, 2024. U.S. Army and Polish armed forces along with civilians gathered at a Polish liberation event. Army Reserve

Washington, Dc. Vietnam Veterans War Memorial.

WW1 Canadian Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Memorial, a First World War One site at Zillebeke, West Flanders, Belgium

Maj. Gen. Chris LaNeve, Paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, and civillians all pay respects during the Airborne Memorial Ceremony in Normandy, France, June 6, 2022. All attendees came to pay respects to the fearless actions of Paratroopers who began their liberation of Normandy 78 years ago to the day.

Armed Forces Memorial on the Santa Monica Promenade, Santa Monica, California, USA

Montana, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, The Memorial at mass gravesite, 220 7th Calvary U.S. Soldiers, scouts, and civilians buried here

Fell in Königstein in Königstein

The Canadian Brooding Soldier at Vancouver Corner at St Juliaan on the Belgium Salient commemorating Canadians lost during 2nd & 3rd Battle of Ypres

Rows of gravestones at Tidworth military cemetery, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, UK

World War II photographer Tony Vaccaro watches as Prefect Patrick Strzoda, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Mayor Vincent Denby-Wilkes place wreathes at a memorial honoring three Americans who died liberating the community from Nazi occupiers in 1944, during a ceremony in Saint Briac, France, on June 7, 2014.

Monument memorial First Boer war, South Africa, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Afghanistan 1877, 1881, Royal regiment of Artillery, Larkhill, Wiltshire, England, UK, Africa

Gold star wall at the World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. USA. (Editorial Use Only)

Tombstones in a cemetery, Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial, Ypres, Belgium

St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, First World War burial ground at Saint-Symphorien near Mons, province of Hainaut, Belgium, Europe

War cemetery in Tuzla park, Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

220530-N-SS492-1055 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (May 30, 2022) -- Leis honoring each submarine lost in World War II are displayed at the Parche Park and Submarine Memorial, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 30, 2022. At the annual Memorial Day event sponsored by the Bowfin Base SubVets, submariners honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending our nation, and all those on eternal patrol.

France, Normandy, Colleville-Sur-Mer. Normandy American Cemetery. Garden of the Missing memorial wall. 66th Anniversary of D-Day.

The Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, DC

Feldscheune Isenschnibbe Gardelegen memorial, cemetery of honour with graves and crosses for 1016 concentration camp prisoners from many European countries who were murdered there in a field barn on 13 April 1945, Gardelegen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Vietnam Memorial, Battery Park

People put poppy flowers on Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa, Canada on Remembrance Day

The Canadian Brooding Soldier at Vancouver Corner at St Juliaan on the Belgium Salient commemorating Canadians lost during 2nd & 3rd Battle of Ypres

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Wreath, Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Washington D.C., United States of America

Marshall Foch Tomb, Les Invalides, Paris, France. King Louis IV created church 1670. Marshall Foch was Supreme Allied Commander in World War 1 and French military hero.

Washington, Dc. Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Germany, Halle, 5.8.1992, Soviet military cemetery in Halle, wall, name plates of fallen Soviet soldiers

Armored Corps memorial Latrun Israel

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A ceremonial wreath is placed at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. During this dedication ceremony, the names of the STS-107 astronauts who lost their lives during the Columbia accident -- Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, and Ilan Ramon -- join the names of 17 other space heroes who gave their lives for the U.S. space program. The "Space Mirror," 42 1/2 feet high by 50 feet wide, illuminates the names of the fallen astronauts cut through the monument's black granite surface.

Canadian military graves at Saint Margarets in Bodelwyddan North Wales. Canadian troops were based at the nearby Kinmel Park camp

Commemorating fallen British soldiers, poppies and crosses on Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Memorial for the war psioners on Orkney Islands, United Kingdom, Europe

Wreaths of artificial poppies laid in commemoration of war dead at the Cenotaph, London, United Kingdom

2 Para Memorial cross at Goose Green, Falkland Islands

111207-N-XS652-002 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Dec. 7, 2011) Frank Chebetar, president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Tidewater Chapter 2, visits a Pearl Harbor memorial with his daughter before the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. The event commemorated the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Pearl Harbor.

Jerusalem War Cemetery, Chouain, Normandy, France. Gravestones

War Cemetery - El Alamein, Egypt

Wreaths are placed by the headstone of Sgt. Maj. Henry Black, 7th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, during a wreath laying ceremony at the Quantico National Cemetery, Triangle, Virginia, Nov. 10, 2022. The ceremony is held annually on the Marine Corps birthday to honor the memory and military service of Sgt. Maj. Black.

A U.S. Memorial honoring fallen service members rests atop Mt. Suribachi at Iō Tō Island (Iwo Jima), Japan, May 31, 2022. Mt. Suribachi is the island's most prominent feature and the site of the famous U.S. Marine Corps flag raising on February 23, 1945. Marines from multiple units assigned to III Marine Expeditionary Force went to Iwo Jima during Memorial Day weekend to honor the Marines of World War II.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Second Class David Blincoe, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team member, reads a plaque at the Camp Wom Surrender Memorial in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Aug. 27, 2022. DPAA personnel conducted an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Remembrance Day

Flowers are laid at the foot of the USS Peary Memorial during the Battle of the Coral Sea Commemorative Service in Darwin, NT, Australia, May 7, 2022. The ceremony was held commemorating those who lost their lives during the battle.

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YOKOHAMA, Japan (May 24, 2022) Sailors assigned to Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) volunteer during a cleanup event at the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery. CFAY's Ikego Detachment organized a volunteer event to assist in the upkeep of the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery. For 75 years, CFAY has provided, maintained, and operated base facilities and services in support of the U.S. 7th Fleet's forward deployed naval forces, tenant commands, and thousands of military and civilian personnel and their families.

A wreath dedicated to medal of valor recipients is placed during a Memorial Day ceremony at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, as part of Los Angeles Fleet Week, May 30, 2022. The purpose of Fleet Week is to showcase the capabilities of the Navy-Marine Corps team and give back to the community with events, static displays, and personal interactions between service members and the public.

Canada, Manitoba, Churchill. Prince of Wales Fort. The King's Colors or 'Union Jack' British flag of 1606.

Commemorating British soldiers who died in the Afghanistan War, poppies and crosses on Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Manila American Cemetery and Memorial; Manila; Philippines

Wreaths are placed at the WWI and WWII monuments, June 4, 2022, during the Four Braves 78th Commemoration Ceremony, at Monument des 4 Braves, Periers, Normandie, France. The commemoration is to honor the service of the men and women of both WWI WW II. During World War II, Soldiers from the 90th Infantry Division liberated the city from the Germans 78 years earlier on July 27th, 1944.

Germany, Berlin, 09. 05. 2022, Victory Day, Rally at the Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park, Europe

Local citizens lay wreaths to remember the 45 lost lives during World War II, at the Chaguian Massacre memorial ceremony in Yigo, Guam, August 8, 2022. The ceremony is a reminder of the 45 men who were beheaded at this site after being forced to carry enemy weapons and supplies from Manenggon in 1944 during World War II.

Martial inscription on the gravestone of Colonel General Hans von Seeckt at the Invalidenfriedhof, Mitte district, Berlin, Germany, Europe

French Cemetery where 50 French soldiers who lost their lives in the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, are buried, Colonial National Historical Park, Historical Triangle, Virginia

The 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) hold a wreath-laying ceremony at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy in Section 45 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Sept. 27, 2022. This ceremony is held yearly to commemorate President Kennedys contributions to the U.S. Army Special Forces, including authorizing the Green Beret as the official headgear for all U.S. Army Special Forces and his uncompromising support to the regiment.

England, London. A veteran of the First World War planting a ceramic poppy at Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, art installation, marking one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War.

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Day of Remembrance 2023. The Space Mirror Memorial is in view before the start of the Day of Remembrance ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Jan. 26, 2023. The event honored the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of spaceflight. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Columbia tragedy. This years ceremony was hosted by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, which was founded after the shuttle Challenger accident in 1986 to honor the sacrifices of fallen astronauts each year.

A view of a new memorial to fallen Wisconsin State Patrol troopers is shown Sept. 16, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis., at the Wisconsin State Patrol Academy. The new memorial was dedicated Sept. 9, 2022, by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The academy is a tenant organization at Fort McCoy.

Monument for soldiers from Nepal, build in 2015, at the Menentor, First World War, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Graveyard established after the war, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Perg, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

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The Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge, France

Papua New Guinea, Lae. Headstones, Indian war cemetery.

Former concentration camp Auschwitz, Stem Camp Wall Former concentration camp Auschwitz, Stem camp shot wall

Cemetery for Soviet prisoners of war, gravestone for unknown Russian soldier of World War II, war cemetery Tannenhausen, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Ireland, North, Belfast, Andersonstown South Link Ira Belfast Brigade Memorial With Easter Flowers.

Memorial cemetery, Gestapo prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt, Terezin, north Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe

Military cemetery at the Talana Museum. The Battle of Talana was the first between the British and Boers during the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902. Dundee. kwaZulu-Natal. South Africa

France, Paris, Arc de Triomphe, Eternal Flame for the War Dead

Plugstreet 14-18 Experience, World War I Interpretation Centre in Ploegsteert, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Welsh Guards Memorial - a Welsh cross - at Fitzroy Cove, Falkland Islands

British soldiers grave, Minute Man National Historical Park, American Revolution Monument, Massachusetts. Site of April 19, 1775 battle, British Army and American patriots the first battle in which British soldiers were killed

People touch and point at names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.

British military cemetery

KC MO WWi Memorial

The Women of World War II, memorial in front of the Cabinet Office Building, Horse Gardens Road, London, London Region, England, United Kingdom, Europe

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