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Wouldn't it be amazing if these bodies were identified after 93 years

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Saltire · 05/05/2009 16:00

here. I think it is good that people want these bodies identified and let them have a proper burial

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Saltire · 05/05/2009 16:03

and here is a link to teh Commenwealth War graves site about the mass graves and what is being done

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YeahBut · 05/05/2009 16:07

Yes I do. My great-uncle was killed in 1918 and has no known grave - it was very hard for the family to think that he had just "disappeared".

Saltire · 05/05/2009 16:14

Historians reckon that as many as 400 allied bodies may have been buried in mass graves on what was the German side of the line!
Imagine thinking all this time that your relative had died without a grave and then maybe getting the chance to get one for him.Like you say, to jus thtink of them as having disappeared must have been hard to take

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GrapefruitMoon · 05/05/2009 16:32

Yes it's sad and great to think that people can trace their relatives at last - but remember that many civilians/people who died in peacetime also don't have a grave - FIL's father died when he was a baby, due to circumstances at the time (working abroad, WW2) his family couldn't attend the funeral and when FIL tried to research it years later he found that his father had more than likely been buried in an unmarked paupers common grave....

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