After all these years

[Graham]

I have just been watching a TV prog about the phorensic examination of remains found in unmarked graves on the WWI battlefields.
The painstaking time and effort that they go to after all this time is somehow reassuring.
When a grave is found there is usually little or no information as to its occupants, but from what is found and its location they try to indentify the soldier. Fragments of cloth, skeletal remains, cap badges, ID tags are all used in the search. Comparisons of height and age from the remains are compared to the Army records. If they can make a positive ID or are pretty sure of the ID then the name is removed from the memorials to those with unknown graves, the military rolls are altered, and the remains are given a full military funeral in the graveyard near the battlefild.

Comforting.

I have visited some of these cemetaries, and they are quiet thoughtful places. They (the Bitish ones) are all beautifully maintained even after all these years.

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[Jonty]

Yes, my sister and niece have visited the battlefields and I'd like to go over there sometime too.

There is a website which I think is run by the Imperial War Museum where you can search for names and see where that person is buried.