A re-interment ceremony will be held at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery , the Netherlands, on Wednesday 3 October  for Private Lewis Curtis of the 5th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment.

Private Curtis came from Liskeard in Cornwall. He died on 2 October 1944 in an artillery barrage in the aftermath of Operation Market Garden.

His body was found in 2003 at de Laar Farm to the south of Arnhem. He was identified in 2008 by the Dutch Army Recovery Team using dental records.  

The re-interment service will begin at 10 am and will be attended by his niece and nephew and their families.

Private Curtis will be accorded full military honours by The Honour Guard of The 5th Battalion The Rifles. The Royal Netherlands Army National Reserve Band will provide the music.

Click below to read the Order of Service for the ceremony.

A rededication service is to be held at 1 pm on Sunday 4 November at Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, London

The service has been arranged by Southwark Council, in conjunction with the Royal British Legion.

It follows a complete renovation and reinstatement of the cemetery’s 14-18 plot.

The plot contains the graves of 267 First World War casualties. It has not been possible to mark the graves individually, with the casualties commemorated instead, by name, on a screen wall inside the main entrance to the cemetery.

This project marks part of a wider on-going renovation programme within the cemetery, including the installation of full horticultural features in both the Canadian and Australian plots.

The final stages of renovation are due for completion at the end of October.

January 2012 saw the launch of our completely redesigned website.

The new site offers advanced search facilities which are already proving to be a great success.

John Dixon contacted the Commission to say that, as a result of our enhanced search function, he had finally been able to close a gap in the history of the 70th Infantry Brigade.

Mr Dixon was able to identify the four artillerymen killed as a result of an accidental explosion during 70th Infantry Brigade Exercise FORRARD, held on 19 January 1944 in the Southwold area, when a Medium Gun belonging to 109 Battery, 79 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, blew up. 

The Brigade War Diary described the incident but did not mention the names of the men killed.

Thanks to our more sophisticated search facilities, Mr Dixon will now be able to include the identities of the men on the 70th Brigade Memorial Website.

The Commission is gearing up for one of the most important challenges it has faced in peacetime – the centenary of the First World War.

We relish the challenges that the centenary years bring and we look forward to welcoming yet more visitors to our sites.

But, importantly, we also hope those visitors will be able to leave our cemeteries and memorials better informed than ever before.

Over the coming months and years information panels will be installed at no fewer than 500 of the most significant First World War sites maintained by the Commission.

Click below to read a blog entry from CWGC Media and PR Manager, Matt Morris, on how, through the use of QR code technology, visitors will also be able to use a mobile phone or other handheld device to access further information about each site.

Bury Grammar School Boys pupils, Caspar Hobhouse and Luis MacBriar have made a moving visit to Diego Suarez War Cemetery, Madagascar.

The pair were taking part in a World Challenge expedition to Madagascar and, inspired by a previous school battlefields trip, decided to arrange their own visit to the cemetery.

Click below to read Caspar's personal account of the visit.

For the first time since it was founded, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission France Area took part in the European Heritage Open Days.

The event was held at The Arras Memorial, Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery on 15 -- 16 September.

Teams took it in turns to demonstrate our know-how in terms of building, rehabilitation or maintenance of grave markers, and horticulture.

Commission staff were also on hand to open our registers to visitors and offer them our information leaflets.

Click below to view photos from the event.

Arguably the worst single incident of the First World War in terms of the near destruction of command and control of British Divisions was the height of the First Battle of Ypres.

By lunchtime on 31 October, it was becoming clear that the British front line had been broken in one or two places, and immediate action was needed to stabilise the situation.

The commanders of the British 1st and 2nd Divisions had requisitioned the Chateau at Hooge as a suitable place for their headquarters.

This month's feature examines the action and devastation experienced at the Chateau on that day.

Thanks to the Western Front Association (WFA) for providing this article. The WFA is a registered charity dedicated to perpetuating the memory of those who served in the First World War.

For further information about the WFA please visit their website.

Over 4,600 Commonwealth war dead of the two world wars are buried or commemorated in Malaysia, in fourteen sites.

The largest concentration of burials can be found in Taiping War Cemetery and Labuan War Cemetery.

The Labuan Memorial in Labuan War Cemetery commemorates nearly 2,300 war dead who have no known graves, though some of those commemorated may lie in the war cemeteries as unidentified burials.

Kuala Lumpur (Cheras Road) Civil Cemetery contains 533 non-world war graves, mostly of servicemen and their dependants who died during the Malayan Emergency in the early 1950s. These graves are maintained by the Commission on an agency basis.

The Commission employs locally engaged staff to maintain the principal sites at Taiping, Kuala Lumpur and Labuan.