Relics collected during exhumation and reburial?

[knittinganddeath]

Drew Gilpin Faust's book This Republic of Suffering -- about death in the American Civil War -- addresses in part the exhumation and reburial of bodies after the war. In one case, a woman who supervised the exhumations took the bullet that had killed a particular soldier (now visible between the rib bones of his skeleton) and sent it to his parents. I think this was upon their request; the dead man's father carried it with him for the rest of his life.

Are there any similar stories from the Great War? Thanks for any help.

[deutscherinfanteriest]

Hello, I know in WW1 on Italian front, when a piece of filedgrey jacket from a dead Italian was sent to his mother

[knittinganddeath]

Thank you @deutscherinfanteriest, that's very interesting. Do you know how long she kept it or what happened to it?

[deutscherinfanteriest]

I read that on a Militalia magazine, a military history event in Italy every year. If I do not mistake, he was a a Carabiniere, a Military Policeman. The mother had that piece of uniform when they moved the remains to Redipuglia Ossuary. Surely she asked for that. It is not so common ask items from a grave