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Originally Posted by gurkharifles
Charlie
I can't thank you enough for this - it really is a Christmas miracle ! I'm just about to go and fetch my Mother for the New Year - she'll be thrilled - and the family "legend" that he "stayed behind to help bury the dead" has some substance I guess with the final phase of his service?
Tim
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Hi Tim, great info there. After WW1 there was as one can expect thousands of tons of detritus to sort out and dispose of, especially ammunition and not only bodies. I also have medal groups to chaps that served into 1919, a grizzly and thankless job.A large number of soldiers died carrying out these duties.
Brian