MOD War Detectives (the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations team); our future services, current appeals and past cases
Find out about future services and what current appeals are ongoing.
Our future services, current appeals and past cases
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Forthcoming funeral or rededication services with full military honours.
3Tuesday November18 2022October
Vichte Military Cemetery, Belgium.
3pm10.45am; atRededication Heninelservice Communalfor CemeteryPrivate Extension,(Pte) France.David Christie Graham of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
A11.30 funeralam; Rededication service for PteSecond Lieutenant (2Lt) Frank Wood of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Harlebeke New British Cemetery, Belgium
2.15pm; Rededication service for Corporal (Cpl) Herbert Greaves,Pearce 6thof Battalionthe Worcestershire Regiment.
Wednesday 19 October
Dadizeele New British Cemetery
10.15am; Rededication service for Second Lieutenant (2Lt) Herbert Ernest Martin of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Belgium
11.30am; Rededication service for Private (Pte) Thomas Parry of the King’s Own YorkshireScottish LightBorderers.
Ypres Infantry.Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium
2.30pm; Rededication service for Corporal (Cpl) Gilbert Willcocks of the Army Service Corps.
Our Past Cases
Details of some of the MOD War Detectives’ past cases can be found below:
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Graves of two Royal Naval Division officers rededicated in France
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Unknown WW1 soldier identified as relative of poet Wordsworth.
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Rededication services held in Belgium for Capt Hugh Travers, DSO, and Sjt Frederick Cardy.
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Burial of Pte William Johnston and an unknown East Yorkshire Regiment soldier
- Graves of Rifleman (Rfn) Albert George Sleet, Lieutenant (Lt) Wilfrid Ashton Piercy and Serjeant (Sjt) James Gration DCM rededicated in France.
- Graves of 2Lt Sam Hughes and CSM David Jones DCM rededicated in northern France
- Final resting place of Yorkshire Regiment soldier identified more than a century after his death
- Nine soldiers of the Great War buried a century after their deaths
- WW1 soldier identified by his medal ribbons laid to rest in the presence of his family
- Two unknown soldiers of the Great War finally buried
- Royal Flying Corps Observer’s grave finally identifed
- British soldiers killed during WW2 are honoured as they are laid to rest
- Services held for 2 Welsh brothers in arms killed during the Great War
- Grave of Royal Welsh Fusilier identified a century after his death in the Great War
- Family of World War 1 soldiers attend their relatives’ funeral a century after they gave their lives.
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