mutley Posted 25 May , 2004 Share Posted 25 May , 2004 Can any pals verify this statement that I overheard near Ypres last week? The statment from the leader of a tour group was that "after the war when concentration cemeteries were formed, it was common policy to place bodies found together into different concentration cemeteries. If five soldiers were exhumed from a large site on the Monday for example they would be put in one cemetery, soldiers exhumed from the original site on the following days would be put into a differnt cemetery as they rotated on a daily basis." I have always assumed that those found buried together and exhumed would always be reinterned together. Can anyone shed any light. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brummy Posted 25 May , 2004 Share Posted 25 May , 2004 11 years working for the Commission never heard this before? Who was the guide? Brum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 25 May , 2004 Share Posted 25 May , 2004 Its seems very impractical if nothing else. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 25 May , 2004 Share Posted 25 May , 2004 Not heard this one before. Sounds like another Western Front myth. No doubt bodies did end up on occasions in different cemeteries but it would be very unlikely to be a matter of policy. Possibly it happened on occasions if the same group of soldiers doing the exhuming were reallocated to different concentration cemeteries on certain days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brummy Posted 26 May , 2004 Share Posted 26 May , 2004 I know many of the battle field guides who tour around Ieper, so I ask again who was the guide? If I know him or her maybe i can have a chat with them and find the source of their infortmation. PM me if you do not want to put the name down out here. Brum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutley Posted 27 May , 2004 Author Share Posted 27 May , 2004 Thanks to all, I don't know who the guide was, as I was on my own and was stood behind the party whilst the guide was talking, it just didn't seem right to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brummy Posted 27 May , 2004 Share Posted 27 May , 2004 Most guides I have met around the Salient are very good and have an impresive knowledge of the area and the war. But you do find one or two who make it up as they go along. This does not automaticaly mean that what you where told was wrong, but something new like this is always worth checking out. Brum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutley Posted 27 May , 2004 Author Share Posted 27 May , 2004 Brummy thanks for the info. As you say its always worth while checking things out. I have no idea who the guide was and I wasn't part of his party. I just happended to be in Bedford House Cemetery at the same time. It was on Wednesday afternoon at about 1600 hrs if that helps anyone identify the group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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