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Offline mmm45

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Re: UK soldiers died in Great War
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 21 July 10 22:52 BST (UK) »
By the dates it looks like he was a casualty at the Battle Of Messines he has no known grave as his body may have been recovered and buried but subsequently lost to Artillery bombardments devastating the ground he was buried in... alternatively if he was killed in an artillery strike there may have been no body left to bury..
Unit War Diary for 7th South Lancs should give approx positions where they were....

There are 54000 Lads with no known grave remembered on the Menin Gate memorial on the Ypres Salient.

Ady
Lowe(Lower Gornall-Castleford)
Blackburn (Castleford)
Sidwell(Ledsham)
Fairburn(Hartshead)
Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: UK soldiers died in Great War
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 22 July 10 01:19 BST (UK) »
finpat,

I have posted some info on your other thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,469708.0.html
UK census content is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk  Transcriptions are my own.