Fromelles

[dotty.]

This will be the first year since July 1916 that the families of 250 soldiers killed at Fromelles will have a grave to stand beside and reflect, thanks to the work of the CWGC. So to those who feel Remembrence Day is losing it's relevence, there are 1000s of war dead still missing , modern anthropology and forensic techniques are being used to identify and account for those missing brothers, husbands, fathers, it has to go on.

[ttfn]

well said dotty

[jackthehat]

Two of my great-uncles are merely names inscribed on walls in France, dotty. There was nothing of them to bury.........

.........and the burghers of Bacup have managed to miss *both* their names off all of the local memorials !!

[Barmaid]

My great uncle was killed in Belgium on 10 July 1917. He also has no known grave.

[dotty.]

Have you founf thier names on the wall jth? It's tremendously movin to see the vastness of those walls, my dad wept when he found his cousins name.

[jackthehat]

I've never been, but a distant relative has sent me a photograph of one of the names.
I was profoundly moved..............and sad............and angry.

[askyourgran]

I really hope they still go on looking for the remains dotty, the WW1 1914/18 war must have been pure hell.

[webbo3]

agreed dotty, ....least we forget.



Dave.

[ttfn]

How very strange is this? I found a site which offers the opportunity for anyone to add a name to the list of fallen - but this does not extend to WWI
http://www.wewillrememberthem.co.uk/

[dotty.]

I get an attack warnin when I click on your link ttfn. is it a site attached to the GWGC?

[ttfn]

Sorry dotty - pc crashed, can't think why, it is not as if I ever make a contentious posting. I have no idea at all about the pedigree for this site - I have just been able to open it from the link above. Perhaps I should just concede defeat and retire for the night.

[Bobbisox]

Noooooooo don't disappear sis.x

[pusskin]

its all so very sad that all them brave men died in the ww1!

I am so very thankfull that my sister, brother and I went to Ypre early this year to visit my g/dads grave. he was buried in "Oak Dump Cemetury" in 1917, and Oh boy, their were plenty of tears on that day
(Belgium)