Hi everyone, This may be a little off subject, but here goes- While researching my family tree i have found that two of my relatives were killed in w.w 1 my relative from Wigtownshire died in 1915, at the battle of Loos in France, he is on a memorial in Loos cemetry, but my question is - where would he be buried ?, could he be buried where he fell ?, it was a horrendous battle, with many lives lost, and after reading a bit about it , it appears that he may have been gassed. Also as this has sparked my interest - what was it like in Wigtownshire during w.w.2 ?, was the pubs/hotels open ?, could they still get a wee dram ? Does anyone know of any locally written books, or web sites that i may try, you can contact me off-list. Janet

I recently read Martin Gilbert's The Somme : Heroism and Horror in the First World War (2006). One of the points made by the author is that for many many of the dead in WW I, the bodies were never identified. There are many graves of unknown casualties and many memorials inscribed with the names of those bodies were never identified. Nasty business. Janet Nuttall wrote: > Hi everyone, > This may be a little off subject, but here goes- > While researching my family tree i have found that two of my relatives were killed in w.w 1 my relative from Wigtownshire died in 1915, at the battle of Loos in France, he is on a memorial in Loos cemetry, but my question is - where would he be buried ?, could he be buried where he fell ?, it was a horrendous battle, with many lives lost, and after reading a bit about it , it appears that he may have been gassed. > . . .

Hi Janet Below is the website for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. You can search for their graves there. http://www.cwgc.org/ Ella Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Nuttall" <janetnuttall2@btinternet.com> To: <sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:31 PM Subject: [WIG LIST] W.W.1 > Hi everyone, > This may be a little off subject, but here goes- > While researching my family tree i have found that two of my relatives > were killed in w.w 1 my relative from Wigtownshire died in 1915, at the > battle of Loos in France, he is on a memorial in Loos cemetry, but my > question is - where would he be buried ?, could he be buried where he fell > ?, it was a horrendous battle, with many lives lost, and after reading a > bit about it , it appears that he may have been gassed. > Also as this has sparked my interest - what was it like in Wigtownshire > during w.w.2 ?, was the pubs/hotels open ?, could they still get a wee > dram ? > Does anyone know of any locally written books, or web sites that i may > try, you can contact me off-list. > Janet > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message