Khaki Posted 9 March , 2017 Share Posted 9 March , 2017 If an identified soldiers remains are discovered, are the family consulted as to final reburial and disposal of recovered personal effects. ? khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGM Posted 9 March , 2017 Share Posted 9 March , 2017 Here is one example of family involvement... Essex Regiment Museum receives artefacts from Battle of Somme ............The archaeologists also recovered their personal possessions, and these were returned to the families of the soldiers by the Ministry of Defences’ Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre, who subsequently led the work to identify them, trace their families and arranged their full service funeral in October 2016............ See the full story HERE CGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 9 March , 2017 Share Posted 9 March , 2017 Thanks CGM, I don't know what my response would be when surprised with this sort of news, I would not want any personal effects and would prefer that the remains & effects be reburied in a military cemetery. khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 10 April , 2018 Share Posted 10 April , 2018 On 8/29/2016 at 15:13, LDT006 said: One of the remains found has been identified as WALKER, HENRY JOHN INNES of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. This will be revealed in a TV documentary tonight but it's already in the news: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/cultuur%2Ben%2Bmedia/media/1.2752640 CWGC link: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/912603/WALKER, HENRY JOHN INNES Luc. There is a notice about the service on April 18th 2018 (next Wednesday): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/current-commemorative-casework/current-commemorative-casework Posted here as I suspect it is on the web only for the short term. Quote Capt H J I Walker, Royal Warwickshire Regt and 6 unknown soldiers 18 April 2018 Multiple sets of remains found in 2016 west of the village of St Julien, Belgium, 5 of them were found without any military insignia and will be buried as unknown soldiers of unknown regiments. 1 will be buried as an unknown soldier of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. CaptWalker was identified by several personal items inscribed with his initials. His family has been traced and will be in attendance. Research into the identification of the other casualties is ongoing, they will be buried at a later date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATNOMIS Posted 12 April , 2018 Share Posted 12 April , 2018 Henry John Innes Walker picture and story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWK Posted 18 April , 2018 Share Posted 18 April , 2018 Belgian TV News of this evening had an item about the reburial of Captain Jack Walker and 6 unknown soldiers: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/03/14/emoties_na_honderdjaar/ They made a mistake there on the website: the clip is embedded in an article about an earlier reburial: that of British soldier Thomas Telford Edmundson on 14th March 2018, and the coverfoto of the clip is also of that earlier burial. But if you click on the video you get the item about Jack Walker. Bit confusing all. Have alerted them of this mistake, so chances are this link will be gone within a day or two. I'll post the new link asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 19 April , 2018 Share Posted 19 April , 2018 I was able to tell from the code that the video was on the Facebook page of VRT NEWS, so it is still there: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=VRT NWS WALKER It looks like the complete story is here: https://www.facebook.com/FlandersFields1418/videos/2526143467399361/UzpfSTI3MDk5NDUyNDYyMToxMDE1NzI4OTUyNjIzNDYyMg/?q=VRT NWS WALKER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorke Scarlett Posted 20 April , 2018 Share Posted 20 April , 2018 A very moving ceremony it was too. They shall not grow old................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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