John Henry Wilkinson (1887-1916), known as Henry or Harry. My grandmother's first husband, killed at the Somme on 10th September 1916. His son Harry, was born the following month. Buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, France. I visited his grave with my dad in 1982 and both of my children were taken to the grave when they went with their school on a tour of the battlefields. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Dotty - where did you hear about the 400 bodies found in France? Alan is going in June for five days - must ask him to keep an eye out for Rimmers on the monuments, etc.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: BBC Radio news
Hi seacop,
I think I have it right...it was definitely on BBC Radio 2 news at 3pm. Over 400 in a mass grave buried by the Germans in France or I may be wrong about the country of burial but it will be on the main news this evening. It also mentions having DNA from some families to aid in the identification. I'm at work so can only listen when I have no patients to deal with... :smt010
Dotty
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Told Alan about it and he reminded me that they found this grave last year; now they have the new cemetery ready they are going to try and put the bodies in individual Commonwealth War Graves and put appropriate headstones on.
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I am fairly certain that the Germans removed the dog tags before the mass burial so they had a record of those buried but, of course, it will make it far harder if not impossible to identify the individual bodies.
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