Template:CWGC
"Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- CWGC person ID (P1908) (see uses)
This template uses Lua: |
This template is used to provide links to casualty details in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database at http://www.cwgc.org.
Usage
{{CWGC|id=|name=|access-date=}}
- id: (optional; will fetch ID from Wikidata if no value provided) the number found in the URL for the casualty (see "Examples" below)
- name: (optional) the name of the casualty
- access-date: (optional) the date the information was retrieved from the website
- fewer-links: (optional) set
|fewer-links=yes
to disable wikilinks and prevent overlinking, i.e. if the template is used more than once in an article - mode: (optional) set
|mode=cs2
to make the template compatible with Citation Style 2; defaults to Citation Style 1
Examples
The url for Wilfred Owen is http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/336417/
Extract the 336417 and use this number for the |id=
parameter, i.e.
{{CWGC|id=336417}}
, which displays as
Other examples using the optional parameters:
{{CWGC|id=336417|name=Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter}}
, which displays as
{{CWGC|id=336417|name=Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter|access-date=3 December 2024}}
, which displays as
- "Casualty Details: Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
{{CWGC|id=336417|name=Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter|access-date=3 December 2024|fewer-links=yes}}
, which displays as
- "Casualty Details: Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
{{CWGC|id=336417|name=Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter|access-date=3 December 2024|mode=cs2}}
, which displays as
- "Casualty Details: Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter", Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 3 December 2024
Tracking categories
- Category:CWGC person ID not in Wikidata (181)
- Category:CWGC person ID different from Wikidata (21)
- Category:CWGC person ID same as Wikidata (487)
- Category:CWGC template with no id set (exists in template, not created)
See also
- {{CWGC cemetery}}
- {{AFM roll of honour}}