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.
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.
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/
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.
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)