Lest we forget
Feb 24, 2022
4 minutes
STORY BY ALASDAIR MCGREGOR
E THEY ON LAND, at sea or in the air, theatres of war are turbulent and messy places. In the aftermath of the death and destruction of battle there’s rarely time for an ordered clean-up, where the dead can be formally identified and interred with honour and dignity. In the massive engagements across the Western Front of World War I, the dead were sometimes hastily consigned to mass graves. Worse still, many were lost without trace or recognition, stranded in space and time and with no recorded grave. From those terrible battles of the early 20th
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