Thank you Rena!!
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You learn something new every day. My late OH served in the RAF for 12 years and I never heard mention of a Graves section.
I've now looked it up and found this:-
<The term "Graves" is not a specific section of the British armed forces, but refers to the graves and memorialization of service members, primarily those maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
During World War II, the responsibility for handling British Army and RAF graves was split, with the Army Graves Service handling Army graves and RAF personnel graves in Western Europe being initially handled by Army units due to an agreement between the Air Ministry and War Office, though the RAF later advocated for its own units to handle its own graves.
Army Graves Service: A branch of the British Army that was initially responsible for handling graves in Western Europe, including those of RAF personnel.
RAF Graves Service: A service that the RAF had to form to handle its own graves because of its initial lack of responsibility for its own dead. It was not an operational or combat role, but an administrative one.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC): The CWGC was the primary organization responsible for maintaining war graves for the Commonwealth forces after the two World Wars.
Service-funded funeral: After January 1948, all service personnel who die in military service and receive a service-funded funeral are entitled to have their grave marked with a military-pattern memorial, and the government will maintain it at public expense. >
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