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Originally Posted by Tree_UK
Sorry Elaurens I didn't intend to make light of that. I have a great Uncle that is buried in Belgium, he was killed in action at the age of 18 in the great war. To my knowledge no family members have ever visted is grave or laid flowers on it, his mother was too poor to be able to afford to make the trip as her husband died just after the war from the flu epidmic. It is my intention to visit his grave one day and pay my respects. S!
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Spooky. So have I, although he's a great great uncle (or is it 'great granduncle?). He was already 41 when he was killed and a regular in the Manchester regiment. Prior to Flanders, he'd served in the South African campaign and on the Khyber pass.
By some quirk of fate I ended up with his war medals, which I had re-ribboned, and an Afghani Kukhri knife, which my Dad used to use for gardening.
I've seen pictures of his headstone in the cemetery in Belgium on the War Graves Commission site and must make the time to go there soon. Luckily, he wasn't one of the 'unknowns'.
My Grandma also lost both brothers in the Great War, I have a picture of one of them which appeared in the local newspaper at the time and I kid you not I thought it was a picture of me at the same age. Very spooky.
