Unidentified Victims Of The Blitz.

[sandyRoe]

A man on FB who conducts tours of Belfast cemeteries posted about the mass grave of people who were killed and their remains unidentified after the 1940 bombings. Things were probably very different 80+ years ago but you'd think if someone disappeared after a bombing raid there'd be relatives or friends looking for news of them.
Maybe there were grieving relatives looking but the authorities couldn't help.
What say you?

[Barsel]

Well, I should imagine there would be people killed who were so badly disfigured, they wouldn't be able to identify them.

[ToraToraTora]

well maybe they had no relatives or maybe the entire family all died at once. Some people have no one that will miss them.

[andres]

During the blitz there would not have time to do anything but try to remove bodies from the debris.There would not have been any large enough buildings left where the bodies could be laid for identification. The main priority would have been to attend to the wounded.

[sandyRoe]

There was a tv documentary about the Belfast blitz. The swimming pool of the Falls Rd baths was drained and used to hold the bodies.
As has already been said, the priority would have been to tend to the injured. And as there was no DNA available, no way to identify some remains.