Victims of the Great War

[Marilyne]

Gents and Ladies, 

 

I'm not sure this is in the right part of the forum... I'll move it if need be. 

Last week I was in Calais, and I convinced The Boyfriend to drive to Les Baraques Military Cemetery in Sangatte. 

Apart from some very interesting graves that need research on my side (like 7-year old Joseph Leng, the women in the cemetery for my new project and of course Belgian Master A.C. Steyaart), I found a handfull of stones bearing only the mention "A Victim of the Great War". 

 

 

I have honestly never seen this before on the Western Front (at least not consciously, like I noticed - there's maybe more of them) but I was wondering who lays beneath such stones. 

As Les Baraques was mainly used by the hospitals around Calais, one can only suppose this was a civilian or a soldier that could not be identified as such brought to the hospital and who died there? Or a victim found when cleaning the battlefields? 

Or???? 

 

and the question remains, if he was a civilian, how can one ascertain for sure that he died due to the war? 

 

any thoughts?? 

 

Marilyne

 

[jonbem]

There are quite a lot @Known unto God@

ANOTHER THREAD

 

[spof]

I can't say I've ever seen one saying "Victim" before.

 

As CWGC didn't record civilian deaths in this war, it could be that Calais has an agreement with CWGC to maintain war related civilian graves (air raids etc.) in the cemetery provided that they weren't named but with a list of names and plots easily available for families. Pure speculation on my part though.

 

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On 13/09/2018 at 02:07, Marilyne said:

Apart from some very interesting graves that need research on my side (like 7-year old Joseph Leng, the women in the cemetery for my new project and of course Belgian Master A.C. Steyaart),

 

you may find this old thread helpful

 

[Marilyne]

Very interesting indeed !!

thanks !!

 

M;