
A coalition of public initiatives, organisations, researchers, reenactors, volunteers and families across the UK
Preserve the memory of your veteran relatives who fought in the Second World War. Add their story, photo, and military service details to the UK registry.
Honour our veterans across the UK. Add your veteran to the registry and take part on 9 May — virtually from anywhere, or in person at the flower-laying ceremony at the Soviet World War II Memorial in London (Lambeth Road SE1 6HZ, 10:00 AM).
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“We carry their portraits so they march with us forever.”
Immortal Regiment · London
Since 2026, the UK format has been a virtual march paired with a single physical flower-laying ceremony at 10:00 AM at the Soviet World War II Memorial, Lambeth Road SE1 6HZ, London.
Do you have a veteran in your family who fought in WWII? Add their name and story to our UK registry so their memory lives on forever.
The Lough Erne flying-boat base in Fermanagh — Catalinas and Sunderlands flew the Battle of the Atlantic from here, and a Castle Archdale Catalina re-found the Bismarck. Now a country park with a WWII exhibition.
Sunderland's war memorial in Mowbray Park — a column crowned by Victory, commemorating the fallen of both World Wars in this heavily-bombed shipbuilding town.
The preserved ruins of St Peter's Church, gutted in the Bristol Blitz of November 1940, kept as the city's memorial to around 1,300 civilians killed in the air raids.
A recovered Sherman tank at Torcross commemorating the 749+ American servicemen killed in Exercise Tiger, the April 1944 D-Day rehearsal attacked by E-boats in Lyme Bay.
Green Park memorial to the 55,573 aircrew of RAF Bomber Command who died in the Second World War, and to civilians of all nations killed in the bombing.
Research, memoirs, and archival documents

How the Russian-speaking diaspora in the UK preserves veteran names and family histories through moypolk.uk, a CEA-operated digital archive structurally independent from any state body.

On 30 August 1941, Winston Churchill offered Stalin 200 Hurricane fighters as part of the military aid programme. Within days, the first Hurricanes landed at Vaenga airfield near Murmansk.

The mass evacuation of children from Britain's cities — Operation Pied Piper — was one of the largest social upheavals in the country's history, affecting millions of families.

The story of the SOE — Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" — which sent agents into occupied Europe to organise sabotage, subversion, and resistance.

1914 – 1945
Senior Lieutenant

1900 – 1942

1920 – 2005
Captain, Intelligence Officer
901 горно-вьючного артиллерийского Печенгского ордена А.Невского полка

Solder

1920
Red Army Soldier

Junior Lieutenant

1911 – 1942
Junior Commander
8-я гвардейская дивизия

1903 – 1943
Red Army Soldier
A small ritual of remembrance. Lit candles stay on the veteran's page forever.
Photographs that lost their names. The community helps match faces to names.