13 June 2023

Announcing the 2023 CWGF Calendar Competition winners

The wait is over! After hundreds of amazing entries, we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Commonwealth War Graves Foundation Calendar Competition.

2023 Calendar Competition – The winners revealed

Everyone here at the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation was blown away by the incredible response to this year’s Calendar Competition.

Over 700 incredible photos and images were submitted for this year’s contest. The participating shutterbugs were tasked with capturing the architecture of Commonwealth War Graves sites in ways that moved them.

It was an immense task to go through all these brilliant images but, after much discussion and deliberation, we were finally able to select 13 lucky winners.

Each winning photo will take pride of place in the CWGF 2024 Calendar, either as the cover image or one of the internal month pages.

Calendars will be available in our shop soon. Until then, check out all the incredible wining images from the 2023 Calendar Competition below.

CWGF 2023 Calendar Competition Winning Photos

Front Cover - H.A.C Cemetery, France, Francisco Javier Hernandez Delpon

January - Vimy Memorial, France, Andrew Thornton

February - Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, France, Andrew Holmes

March - Headstones, Henk Jaspers

April - Arras Memorial and Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, France, Ana Pilar Calavia Millan

May - Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, France, Hans Bert Oskam

June - Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong, Christopher Weekes

July - Canada Cemetery, France, Francisco Javier Hernandez Delpon

August - Massicault War Cemetery, Tunisia, Peter Tarrant

September - Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium, Valérie Habracken

October - Etaples Military Cemetery, France, Andrew Duncan

November -Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France, Stephen Kerr

December - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, Klaus Steffensen

CWGF Calendar Competition: The shortlist

The standard of entries for this year’s competition was so high. We thought those shortlisted for the final prize, but sadly didn’t quite make the final cut, were worthy of sharing too.

See below for a curated collection of images taken from the 2023 CWGF Calendar Competition shortlist.