Submitted by Serena Gear on Friday 20th March 2026
Published on Friday 17th April 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Saturday 17th October 2026
Current Signatures: 623
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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100 years ~ Afghanistan ~ Bosnia ~ Bury ~ country ~ Create ~ Dignity ~ Disturbing ~ Face ~ Falklands ~ Families ~ Iraq ~ Iraq and Afghanistan ~ Law ~ men ~ Military veterans ~ Permanently ~ Reform ~ risk ~ status ~ The Falklands ~ Veteran ~ WWII ~ Years
Protect graves of all UK military veterans from reuse under new burial proposals
Amend proposed reforms to burial law to permanently protect all UK military veterans’ graves from reuse, regardless of CWGC or MoD status, and create a national register allowing families to designate and safeguard graves of those who served.
Many veterans, including those from WWII, the Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, are not buried in CWGC or MoD graves due to technicalities. Proposed grave reuse laws risk their resting places being disturbed after 100 years. These men and women served their country and deserve permanent dignity in death. We believe families should not face the possibility of their loved ones being erased due to administrative gaps.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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