Records for the War Dead of WW1(5)

Cross for an Italian soldier named Zilio Battista who is buried in the Belgian Military Cemetery at Houthulst north of Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium.

Commissariato generale per le onoranze ai Caduti di guerra Russian WW1 Graves in France

Russian military cemetery St. Hilaire le Grand on the Marne battlefield in France.

Russian military cemetery St. Hilaire le Grand, Marne, France.

There are almost 1,000 Russian WW1 military graves on the Marne battlefield. They are cared for by the French war graves agency Le Ministère des Pensions. See our page for information about the French war graves agency:

Le Ministère des Pensions Records for United States of America WW1 War Dead

Cross for American soldier Philip J Fay, Private 1st Class, serving with the 310th Infantry in the 78th Division. He was from Rhode Island and he died 22nd September 1918. This burial is in the American military cemetery at St. Mihiel in France.

Cross for American soldier Philip J Fay, Private 1st Class, serving with the 310th Infantry in the 78th Division and who died on 22 September 1918.

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is the war graves agency responsible for the care and maintenance of WW1 graves of soldiers serving with the United States Armed Forces during the First World War. For information about the agency and its work see our page at:

American Battle Monuments Commission

Records of the International Red Cross (Prisoners of War)

The Red Cross was used as a “go-between” between the warring nations, whereby the locations of the burials of military dead and captured prisoners by an enemy were recorded and were passed to the enemy nation via the Red Cross. The Red Cross made copies of this information and the archive where this information has been stored since 1918 was “discovered” by British military historian Peter Barton. The records have been safely stored in a basement of the Red Cross Museum in Geneva but were an unknown source of such information to military historians until now. The original records which had been passed to the United Kingdom, France and Germany are believed to have been destroyed by enemy action in the Second World War.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has digitized the archive so that families may be able to access the records and possibly trace the original burial location of a relative who has been recorded as missing.

For free online access to the digitized archive visit the website:

Website: Prisoners of the First World War

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Records for the War Dead of WW1(5)