flers1916 Posted 6 April , 2019 Share Posted 6 April , 2019 Could some kind person recommend a book/books on the clearance of the European Battlefields after World War One. I have heard some stories about the use of Chinese labour, ex-troops, and the role local farmers. All suggestions will be gratefully received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 6 April , 2019 Admin Share Posted 6 April , 2019 Hugh Clout, After The Ruins comes well recommend. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottmarchand Posted 7 April , 2019 Share Posted 7 April , 2019 (edited) This paper has a good bibliography http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/clearingthedead.html https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-soldiers-life-1914-1918/what-happened-to-a-soldier-who-died/ Edited 7 April , 2019 by scottmarchand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottmarchand Posted 7 April , 2019 Share Posted 7 April , 2019 old thread here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flers1916 Posted 8 April , 2019 Author Share Posted 8 April , 2019 Thank you all for your helpful replies. I also heard that local people were paid for each body they recovered resulting in some cutting/breaking up a body to be paid twice? No one is perfect and in hard times who knows what we would do if we came home to find our village and fields destroyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 9 April , 2019 Share Posted 9 April , 2019 'No Labour, No Battle - Military Labour During the First World War' John Starling and Ivor Lee, has 4 pages on exhumation and reburial in the appendices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petroc Posted 28 May , 2019 Share Posted 28 May , 2019 Hi, a useful 'sidearm' to other suggestions is Longworth's 'Unending Vigil' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew pugh Posted 28 May , 2019 Share Posted 28 May , 2019 Hi How about Burial and Reburial 1919 by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Regards Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithfazzani Posted 29 May , 2019 Share Posted 29 May , 2019 Andy, is that a book? If so do you have the ISBN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew pugh Posted 29 May , 2019 Share Posted 29 May , 2019 Hi Keith It was a booklet that was produced by the C W G C, Give them a call and ask if it is still available. I will see if i still have my copy. PM me with your address and i will send you a copy if you cannot get hold of a copy. Regards Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithfazzani Posted 30 May , 2019 Share Posted 30 May , 2019 Thanks. I’ll give them a ring and see. Let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 30 May , 2019 Share Posted 30 May , 2019 There is a catalogue reference on the CWGC Archive with a pdf download, but I haven't downloaded it, so I don't know what is in it. http://archive.cwgc.org/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=CWGC%2f1%2f1%2f5%2f27&pos=4 Exhumation By IWGC - General File CWGC/1/1/5/27 WG 1294 PT. 2 Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bardess Posted 30 May , 2019 Share Posted 30 May , 2019 This PDF is quite helpful too Clearing the Dead.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac101 Posted 31 May , 2019 Share Posted 31 May , 2019 Challenge of the Dead by Stephen Graham might be an interesting read. Graham an avowed socialist made his name as writer prior to the war with two books on pre-revolutionary Russia. He joined the Scots Guards and served from April 1918. He wrote Challenge of the Dead in 1921 after walking the length of the Western Front and in it describes his encounters with those living in the ex war zone and those working on the reconstruction including an encounter with burial parties. A scanned copy is available on archive.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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