BillyH Posted 24 September , 2023 Share Posted 24 September , 2023 CWGC records show that this cemetery has 66 identified burials, but I am trying to find out how many unidentified burials there are (if any) and I cannot seem to get an answer off the CWGC website. Can anyone help please? BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterboy Posted 24 September , 2023 Share Posted 24 September , 2023 33 minutes ago, BillyH said: CWGC records show that this cemetery has 66 identified burials, but I am trying to find out how many unidentified burials there are (if any) and I cannot seem to get an answer off the CWGC website. Can anyone help please? BillyH. The last page of the cemetery register shows 1 unknown British soldier looking around he is buried in Grave Number 77 and have a look at the details of Mcintosh and Winter for the GRRF and Headstone Schudule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyH Posted 25 September , 2023 Author Share Posted 25 September , 2023 Thanks for the reply Chesterboy, I will have another look at your suggestions. I still think that it should be possible to filter a list of the unidentified burials in the cemetery though. BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterboy Posted 25 September , 2023 Share Posted 25 September , 2023 6 minutes ago, BillyH said: Thanks for the reply Chesterboy, I will have another look at your suggestions. I still think that it should be possible to filter a list of the unidentified burials in the cemetery though. BillyH. There isn’t, this option is not available. It should be but hay ho, people have asked it for it for years and years and years. it seems the the unknowns don’t matter to the CWGC any longer as they have their names already on the memorials to the missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT006 Posted 25 September , 2023 Share Posted 25 September , 2023 21 hours ago, BillyH said: CWGC records show that this cemetery has 66 identified burials, but I am trying to find out how many unidentified burials there are (if any) and I cannot seem to get an answer off the CWGC website. Can anyone help please? It has a total of 83 casualties: https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/search-results/?Lat=0&Lon=0&Locality=null&Name=Erquelinnes+Communal+Cemetery&CasualtiesRange=0 67 Commonwealth burials and 16 of other nationalities: https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/55304/erquelinnes-communal-cemetery/ So there is one unidentified Commonwealth burial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 25 September , 2023 Share Posted 25 September , 2023 Be aware that there are 3 special memorials and only one unidentified Commonwealth grave... I have contacted the CWGC about this cemetery asking whether they have some archival sources. My research about the German graves has given me plenty of questions for which I cannot find answers for the moment. The fact that almost all Commonwealth graves could be individually identified is weird, to say the least. Especially as the Germans were able to give a detailed list of the names of their burials but no locations. Also, over the years, there were twice exhumations of German graves, which is quite strange... More questions than answers and unfortunately no reaction from the CWGC on my e-mail. Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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