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Category scheme for files and pages concerning memorials in Category:Memorials.

A memorial is any object, including literature, buildings and areas of land, which serves as a focus for the memory of something, usually a dead person or persons or an event, although occasionally a boundary, a diety, an ideal or to culture.

Graves scheme

Category:Memorials and its documentation in the Memorial documentation

1. Memorials in art
2. Memorials by commemoration
3. Memorials by country
4. Memorials by type

Memorials in art sub-scheme

1. Category:Memorials in art
   1. Monuments in art
   2. Memorials on stamps

Memorials by commemoration sub-scheme

1. Category:Memorials by commemoration
   1. Monuments by commemoration
   2. Memorials to events
      1. Monuments by event
      2. Memorials to accidents
         1. Monuments to accidents
         2. Aircraft accident memorials
            1. Aircraft accident monuments
         3. Railway accident memorials
            1. Railway accident monuments
         4. Road accident memorials
            1. Road accident memorials by country
            2. Descansos
            3. Ghost bikes
      3. Aviation memorials
         1. Aviation monuments
      4. Holocaust memorials
      5. Massacre memorials
      6. Plague memorials
         1. Plague monuments
      7. Memorials to victims of acts of terrorism
         1. Monuments to victims of acts of terrorism
      8. War memorials
   3. Iron curtain memorials

War memorials sub-scheme

1. War memorials
   1. War memorials by conflict
   2. War memorials by country
   3. Cenotaphs to war dead
   4. Cross of Nails
   5. Military museums
   6. Monument aux morts pacifiste
   7. Artificial poppies
   8. Rolls of honour
   9. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier

War memorials by conflict sub-scheme

1. War memorials by conflict
   1. American Civil War memorials
   2. American Revolution war memorials
   3. Austro-Prussian War memorials
   4. Boer war memorials
   5. Crimean War memorials
   6. Croatian War of Independence memorials
   7. Estonian War of Independence memorials
   8. Finnish War memorials
   9. Franco-Prussian War memorials
   10. Gulf War 1991 memorials
   11. Iraq War memorials
   12. Korean War memorials
   13. Napoleonic War memorials
   14. Second Sino-Japanese War memorials
   15. Serbo-Bulgarian war of 1885 memorials
   16. Soviet war in Afghanistan memorials
   17. Spanish-American War monuments
   18. Vietnam War memorials
   19. World War I memorials
   20. World War II memorials

Memorials by country sub-scheme

Repeat the scheme for each country with the suffix 'in [country]' on the end of each sub-category. The scheme may be further divided regionally within a country, for an example see Category:Memorials in Germany by state.

1. Category:Memorials by country
   1. Argentina

Memorials by type sub-scheme

1. Category:Memorials by type
   1. Heraldic memorials
   2. Memorial literature
   3. Memorial objects
   4. Memorial places
   5. Temporary memorials
      1. Descansos
      2. Ghost bikes

Heraldic memorials sub-scheme

1. Heraldic memorials
   1. Heraldic memorials by country
   2. Hatchments
   3. Totenschilden

Heraldic memorials by country sub-scheme

1. Category:Heraldic memorials by country
   1. Heraldic memorials in Denmark
   2. Heraldic memorials in Germany
   3. Heraldic memorials in the Netherlands
   4. Heraldic memorials in Sweden
   5. Heraldic memorials in the United Kingdom

Memorial literature sub-scheme

1. Category:Memorial literature
   1. In memoriam cards
   2. Elegies
   3. Epitaphs
      1. Epitaphs by country
      2. Names on memorials
   4. Eulogies
      1. People delivering eulogies
   5. Obituaries

Epitaphs by country sub-scheme

1. Category:Epitaphs by country

Memorial objects sub-scheme

1. Category:Memorial objects
   1. Anchor monuments
   2. Memorial bridges
   3. Grave candles
      1. Grave candle vending machines
   4. Memorial crosses
   5. Eternal flame
   6. Memorial fountains
   7. Mourning jewellery
   8. Monuments
   9. Memorial murals
   10. Memorial plaques
       1. Memorial tablets
          1. Wall mounted church monuments
   11. Ribbon symbolism
   12. Memorial seats
       1. Grave benches
   13. Memorial stones
       1. Boundary stones
       2. Gravestones
       3. Memorial stones by country
   14. Memorial towers
   15. Memorial trees
   16. Cinerary urns
       1. Columbaria
       2. Etruscan funerary urns
   17. Memorial wreaths
       1. Funeral wreaths

Monuments sub-scheme

1. Category:Monuments

Monuments by commemoration sub-scheme

1. Category:Monuments by commemoration

Memorial places sub-scheme

1. Category:Memorial places
   1. Memorial bridges
   2. Memorial gardens
   3. Memorial halls
   4. Memorial museums
   5. Memorial parks
   6. Memorial towers
   7. Memorial walks