MOD War Detectives (the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations team); our future services, current appeals and past cases
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Our future services, current appeals and past cases
Forthcoming funeral or rededication services with full military honours.
317 November 2022
3pm10:15 – Rededication service for Pte James McNeilage McLean, 10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders at HeninelFosse Communal7 Military Cemetery Extension,(Quality France.Street), Mazingarbe.
A15:00 funeral– Rededication service for PteLCpl HerbertBrunton Greaves,Smith, 6th1/8th BattalionRoyal King’sScots Ownat YorkshireBancourt LightBritish Infantry.Cemetery
Our Past Cases
Details of some of the MOD War Detectives’ past cases can be found below:
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Sheffield soldier of the Great War laid to rest 105 years after his death
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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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