Proof of death eight years later

[Steve Bramley]

Hi all,

Thought i'd just share something that I found in the 1923 Lincs Regt. OCA publication.

I wonder how the German officer must have felt when he (re) found the letter.

Name: TWEED, ARTHUR

Initials: A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Serjeant

Regiment: Lincolnshire Regiment

Unit Text: 8th Bn.

Age: 28

Date of Death: 26/09/1915

Service No: 12514

Additional information: Son of George and Lavinia Tweed, of 35, Engine St., Brigg, Lincs.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 31 to 34.

Cemetery: LOOS MEMORIAL

Regards,

Steve.

[PFF]

Reminded we of a similar story I saw poasted on a website of English WW I village memorials (Sorry cant remember name) in which there was a postcard photograph

of an English soldier who went MIA in the last German OFfensive of March 1918.

It was sent to his widow by a German soldier after WW I-who wrote that he had

found the picture and had had the soldier's body and a few others moved off of

a busy road so they wouldn't be trampled on.

(Just giving this for reference only-how many other similar stories are there to the one's posted here??)