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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: Lisajb on Monday 11 November 19 07:04 GMT (UK)
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Just found this - really interesting read.
https://news.sky.com/story/war-detectives-how-one-soldier-was-found-and-identified-a-century-after-his-death-11856932?fbclid=IwAR0X7yz91uUA3z6eLSJNk5v7DcbyV57hQHQ2N3WvRvGiUU7O25vfWnbydMs
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Yes, it was. I watched a tv programme recently on the ITV Hub "Long Lost Family Special: The Unknown Soldiers" showing the work that is involved.
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I watched a tv programme recently on the ITV Hub "Long Lost Family Special: The Unknown Soldiers" showing the work that is involved.
I did too, but one thing I noticed was that they looked at the soldiers attestment papers/records. But what about soldiers' records like my g.uncle's which were destroyed in WW2. If my g.uncle's remains were ever found - and he died at Cambria in 1917 - it would take much longer to find his descendants and as he wasn't married and had no children, that would be looking for descendants of his siblings. I guess they'd start with DNA and then hope there was a badge somewhere near the remains. Otherwise it would mean looking at the names on the Cambria War Memorial of the soldiers, and there are thousands, and going from there.
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Yes, the burned papers are going to make things much more difficult. It would be nice if everyone could be identified but that looks doubtful. Still a few more soldiers identified will give closure to a lot of families.
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Very interesting - thanks for posting Lisa. :)
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Genealogists can volunteer to research a missing soldier and build his profile here:
"Commemorating the Missing: Creating a genealogical memorial, and a genetic memorial, for the missing of World War One"
https://commemoratingthemissing.blogspot.com/p/home.html
One of them was a son of the family who had lived in the house where I was born.