Carol it happened quite a lot I am afraid - they died of wounds at a casualty clearing station and buried nearby and then the site was overrun with a subsequent battle or demolished by a shell and all trace of the graves disappeared. Regards John In message <200693011488.653501@carol-3de748ba1>, carol <carol@wakefieldfhs.org.uk> writes >Morning listers > >Have been transcribing and finding info for a local memorial and came >across someone who died of wounds but is named on a memorial not in a >cemetery > >Is this normal, an error on sources etc., > >Can anyone shed a light on this > > >Carol >www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk >www.genealogyjunction.org.uk > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- John Chapman