Fromelles 19th July 1916

[Tez3]

Today in Northern France they are beginning an operation to identify the soldiers buried after this First World War battle and place them in individual graves in a war graves cemetary. The forensic archealogists are hoping to match DNA with living relatives.

These are the casualty lists for the British and Australian troops who may be buried in Fromelles, if any one can help with identifying the soldiers they can contact.
http://www.cwgc.org/fromelles/?page=english/the-project/lists/casualty_lists


http://www.fromelles.net/

More information on this project is here at the Commonwealth War Graves Commision.
http://www.cwgc.org/fromelles/

We will remember them.

 

[Sukerkin]

A most excellent and worthy project.

 

[arnisador]

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[grydth]

For years people and groups throughout the former Soviet Union have labored to find and properly bury the millions of dead from the Eastern Front. I believe it was The Living and the Dead which revealed that millions of soldiers were only hastily buried or even left just laying where they fell.

Various War Graves Commissions and similar units have been at work all over the world for decades trying to locate and identify the dead of the 20th Century's wars. You do the Forum a genuine service in helping us all remember.

 

[stickarts]

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[seasoned]

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[IcemanSK]

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