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Exhumation of the Fromelles Soldiers

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toapps Report 24 Jul 2009 13:38

Many will be aware of the exhumation of British and Australian WW1 soldiers that is currently taking place at Fromelles in northern France.

The soldiers were killed in the bloody battle at Fromelles on the night of 19/20th July 1916 and their bodies were interred in mass burial pits by the German Army.

Thanks to Genes, I have managed to contact potential relatives of more than two hundred of the missing soldiers. It is hoped that at least some of these soldiers will be granted the dignity of being laid to final rest in a named grave through the Ministry of Defence’s DNA testing programme of relatives.

I would like to take this opportunity to encourage all those relatives to whom I have sent messages to contact the MoD’s Service Personnel & Veteran Agency as soon as possible if they have not already done so.

Mel