The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) aims to commemorate the UK and Commonwealth dead of the World Wars, either by maintaining a war grave in a cemetery, or where there is no known grave, by listing the dead on a memorial to the missing. This is a listing of those memorials maintained solely or jointly by the CWGC that commemorate by name the British and Commonwealth dead from World War II whose bodies were not recovered, or whose remains could not be identified.Some of those named on memorials to the missing will have been buried as "unknowns", with a gravestone marked "Known Unto God", but the bodies of many of those commemorated on these memorials were never recovered, could not be recovered, or no remains were left to be recovered. Also included here are memorials to those who were cremated, and the Rolls of Honour that commemorate land and naval losses of undivided India during the Second World War. This listing is of the CWGC memorials with over 4000 names commemorated. The total number of names inscribed on the memorials or rolls of honour listed here, according to the CWGC figures given in the table below, is 188,971.

List of memorials + Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) World War II memorialsArticle and referencePictureCountryLocationCo-ordinatesNumber listedDescription of those listedDates coveredMajor battlesDate unveiledMemorial designerMemorial unveiled by Rangoon Memorial

CWGC Myanmar Taukkyan 26,851 Commonwealth nations January 1942 to July 1945 Burma Campaign Henry J. Brown Francis Festing Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorial

CWGC picture India and Pakistan Delhi and Karachi 25,866 Servicemen of British India entire war non-operational zones n/a n/a n/a Singapore Memorial

CWGC Singapore Kranji 24,303 Commonwealth nations mostly December 1941 and January 1942 Malayan and Indonesian campaigns Colin St Clair Oakes Robert Black Tower Hill Memorial (extension)

CWGC United Kingdom London 23,831 Mercantile Marine entire war naval transport and convoys Edward Maufe (extension) Queen Elizabeth II Runnymede Memorial

CWGC United Kingdom Runnymede 20,291 Royal Air Force entire war aerial missions Edward Maufe Queen Elizabeth II Plymouth Naval Memorial (extension)

CWGC United Kingdom Plymouth 15,933 Royal Navy entire war naval campaigns Edward Maufe (extension) Princess Margaret A further unveiling was made on 11 November 1956 by Admiral Sir Mark Pizey. Portsmouth Naval Memorial (extension)

CWGC United Kingdom Portsmouth 14,918 Royal Navy entire war naval campaigns Edward Maufe (extension) Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Alamein Memorial

CWGC picture Egypt El Alamein 11,864 Commonwealth nations up to 19 February 1943 Battles of El Alamein (First; Second) Hubert Worthington Bernard Montgomery Chatham Naval Memorial (extension)

CWGC United Kingdom Chatham 10,098 Royal Navy entire war naval campaigns Edward Maufe (extension) Prince Philip Bombay/Chittagong 1939-1945 War Memorial

CWGC picture India and Bangladesh Mumbai and Chittagong 6,467 Sailors and merchant seamen of British India entire war naval campaigns and transport n/a n/a n/a Dunkirk Memorial

CWGC France Dunkirk 4,505 British Expeditionary Force mostly 1939 and 1940 Battle of Dunkirk Philip Hepworth Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Cassino Memorial

CWGC picture Italy Cassino 4,044 Commonwealth nations 10 July 1943 to 2 May 1945 Italian Campaign Louis de Soissons Harold Alexander

See also List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing in Belgium and France

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