The burials took place on Thursday, with full military honours, at Cheras War Graves cemetery, in Kuala Lumpur.

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There have been moving history moments, like in 1984, when Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl held hands at a World War I cemetery in Verdun.

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There are 74 war graves in Pershore cemetery - 64 were airmen, 41 of whom were Canadian.

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Of the 74 war graves in Pershore cemetery, 64 are for airmen, 41 of whom were Canadian.

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The first minister will visit the graves of the Commonwealth war dead in Liveramentu Cemetery, the main cemetery in Colombo.

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Ms Geeson's body was found by a man walking in a wooded area of the World War II American Military Cemetery in Madingley.

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He hopes a monument can be erected in Tyne Cot British Cemetery in 2014 to mark the war's 100-year anniversary.

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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial at the Falls Road cemetery was damaged in an attack in August 2011.

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In 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Rabin, who fought in Israel's 1948 war for independence, will be buried with full military honors Monday at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jewish west Jerusalem, where the remains of Zionist founder Theodor Herzl and former prime ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir were laid to rest.

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