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The BACG provides advice on burials and burial grounds.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK
Coffin specifications for funeral directors burying someone at sea.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK.
Two soldiers, whose remains were found in a cave, have been laid to rest with full military honours more than a century after their deaths.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
This booklet provides guidance to members of the clergy on their role and responsibilities during burials, baptisms and marriages.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Nigeria, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
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