Resources for visiting a CWGC site

Whether you're attending one of our guided tours, or are just out exploring on your own, our selection of how-to guides, downloadable cemetery tours and activity booklet will help you make the most of a visit to one of our sites.

Go on a tour of one of our sites

We've created these downloadable guides for some of our largest sites around Great Britain. Each guide will give you the history of the site as well as the stories of some of the casualties commemorated there and some interesting features to keep an eye out for. Download a copy to take with you the next time you visit.

Download the relevant guide ready for your next trip
Brookwood Military Cemetery	Cambridge City Cemetery
Cannock Chase War Cemetery	Cardiff (Cathays) Cemetery
Chatham Naval Memorial	Glasgow Western Necropolis
Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery	Liverpool Naval Memorial
Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery	Newark-upon-Trent Cemetery
Plymouth Naval Memorial	Tower Hill Memorial

Discover our How To Research guides

These bitesize guides are designed to help you research an individual who died in the First World War. Firstly, you will need to decide who you will research… this might be a relative, or you could choose a name from a local war memorial, or you might select a name from a Commonwealth War Graves (CWGC) headstone in one of our cemeteries, or within a parish churchyard local to you.

These guides will take you step by step through your initial research, showing you how to search the CWGC records and archives before making suggestions about where to discover additional information online.

Simply download the relevant guide and begin your journey of discovery
How to research… Army	How to research… Air Force
How to research… Navy	How to research… Merchant Navy
How to research… Australian	How to research… Canadian
How to research… New Zealander	How to research… Undivided India
How to research… South African	How to research… West Indies