War graves: First World War archive goes online

Families will now find it easier to find details of relatives who died in the two world wars

Graves from the First World War in Belgium
(Image credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, has completed a five-year project to digitise more than 300,000 documents relating to those who died in the two world wars.

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