Fromelles Update:
The excavation of the newly discovered mass grave is due to start in May this year.
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The excavation of the newly discovered mass grave is due to start in May this year.
The destruction of the majority of British WWI Service records during the Blitz in 1940 has made it difficult to establish who may be buried at Fromelles.
The soldiers' remains found at Fromelles will be exhumed and laid to rest in individual war graves.
The main British regiments involved in the battle, and therefore the most likely to have men buried at Fromelles, were the:
Gloucestershire Regiment (now The Rifles)
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox & Bucks) (now The Rifles)
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (now The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers),
The Worcestershire Regiment (now The Mercian Regiment),
The Machine Gun Corps (disbanded and no modern equivalent).
Anyone believing they may be related to British soldiers buried at Fromelles should contact the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre, Historic Casualty & Deceased Estates Casework, Service Personnel and Veterans Agency, Building 182, Imjin Barracks, Gloucester GL3 1HW, Email: jccchistcasso3@spva.mod.uk, Tel: 01452 712612 Extension 6303.
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