Search The Names

The names in our database that appear in the display were obtained through agreements with governments, institutions or organizations in participating countries. The lists of those who lost their lives are by no means complete, depending on the state of each country’s archive and on the neglect – or sometimes the loss – of records after 1918.

The World Remembers has no rights to the names, other than to include them in our memorial display, and in the Search the Names function.

Because of the nature of the fighting and of breakdowns in record-keeping, many names have no date of death. We have included these in the display for 1918. The Search results for those names will indicate the date of death as “Unknown.” If the year of death of the name for which you are searching is unknown to you, please be sure to include the year 1918 in your search.

In your search, Data Considerations will provide some information about the source of the names from each country and the completeness of that country’s archives. Many countries continue to make additions or corrections. The World Remembers will be updated accordingly.

We believe the names of the dead, no matter their national origin, deserve to be acknowledged. We continue to work with a number of countries to complete the lists of their war dead and to appeal to countries not yet participating to join this unique memorial.

The World Remembers is about more than war, loss, victory or defeat: it has been and is about our common humanity and what we all need to learn from our collective world history ... [It] makes history human and real, and reminds each and every one of us of the debt we owe others, the cost of freedom and the benefit of peace.

—The late Honourable Hugh Segal, OC, OOnt, CD, former Principal of Massey College, Toronto