Search the war graves from the First and Second World Wars and find the victims

The widget allows you to search the full details of the victims as the country falls silent to remember the lost

Last year, wreaths were laid at the Remembrance Day service on St George’s Plateau in central Liverpool(Image: Liverpool echo)

The royal family will lead the nation in the Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph this weekend with events being held across Britain to mark the anniversary of the end of the First World War. The Liverpool service will take place on The Sint-Joris plateau.

At exactly 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent and what was then known as the Great Warcame to an end. The conflict began on July 28, 1914, when – exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip – Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

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Over the next four years, more than 16 million people were killed in one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. According to the phrase first coined by British author HG Wells, it would be “the war that will end the war.”

But just over twenty years later, peace was restored to Europe devastated by the rise of Nazi Germany, which led to Britain declaring war after Hitler’s army invasion of Poland. Countless soldiers paid the ultimate price during these two wars.

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As the nation prepares to honor those who died in conflicts around the world, both past and present, you can search complete casualty records from World War I and World War II with our interactive tool. You can search with any combination of first name or initial, last name, street or municipality/city.

It is not necessary to fill in all the boxes; fill as many or as few as you like. With this database you can, for example, search for people from your city who bear your name or simply see who has died in your hometown.

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However, keep in mind that not all names correspond to a specific street and using names will provide the most accurate results. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has generously provided the data and has painstakingly compiled this rich and detailed information over many years.