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Our future services, current appeals and past cases

This autumn we will be undertaking a number of services:

Tuesday 31 October

• 2pm - A rededication service for Marine Geoffrey Albert Johnson, Royal Marines killed in action on 23 April 1945. The service will take place at Geldermalsen General Cemetery, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 2.30pm A burial service for two unknown soldiers of the First World War. This service will take place at Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 2.30pm A burial service for Rifleman Frederick Adams of 2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade, killed in action on 19 November 1917. The service will take place at Passchendaele New British Cemetery.

Appeals for family

There are no appeals outstanding at this time.

Our Past Cases

Details of some of the MOD War Detectives past cases can be found below:

• Graves of two Glasgow soldiers rediscovered in Belgium

• Three Great War soldiers buried with full military honours in Belgium

• Graves of Two Scottish Soldiers Rededicated in France

• Remains of Coldstream Guards missing since 1944 found in France

• Grave of Wolverhampton soldier killed in Normandy during World War Two identified

• Graves of three comrades killed in Normandy following D-Day identified

• Three Great War soldiers buried in Belgium

• Three Great War soldiers buried in France

• Soldier killed on the Somme buried more than 100 years after his death

• Ceremony for World War 2 airman identified 83 years after fatal flight

• Remains of World War 1 airman finally identified

• World War 1 stretcher bearer buried in Belgium

• Graves of two soldiers of the Great War rededicated in France

• Soldiers who fell in France a generation apart honoured in graveside ceremonies

• Graves of two officers missing since 1918 rededicated in France

• Grave of a Worcestershire Soldier Identified in Belgium

• Graves of two soldiers killed in northern France rededicated

• Sheffield soldier of the Great War laid to rest 105 years after his death

• Graves of six Great War soldiers rededicated

• British airman laid to rest 78 years after fatal flight

• WW2 airman buried in the Netherlands

• WW2 burial in the Netherlands

• Unknown Grenadier Guard finally laid to rest

• Graves of two Royal Naval Division officers rededicated in France

• Seven soldiers of the Great War finally laid to rest

• WW1 Royal Air Force officers grave rededicated.

• Two Great War RAF officers graves rededicated.

• Graves of two Great War casualties finally rededicated.

• Unknown WW1 soldier identified as relative of poet Wordsworth.

• WW2 officers grave rededicated in France.

• Rededication services held in Belgium for Capt Hugh Travers, DSO, and Sjt Frederick Cardy.

• Rededication services in France for Lieutenant (Lt) Frederic Hornby Lever Rushton MC and Private (Pte) John Martin Roberts.

• Burial of Pte William Johnston and an unknown East Yorkshire Regiment soldier

• Blessing service in Italy for Flying Officer Arnold Hallas

• Unknown WW2 British Soldier buried in Italy.

• Graves of Rifleman (Rfn) Albert George Sleet, Lieutenant (Lt) Wilfrid Ashton Piercy and Serjeant (Sjt) James Gration DCM rededicated in France.
• Graves of 2Lt Sam Hughes and CSM David Jones DCM rededicated in northern France
• Final resting place of Yorkshire Regiment soldier identified more than a century after his death
• Nine soldiers of the Great War buried a century after their deaths
• WW1 soldier identified by his medal ribbons laid to rest in the presence of his family
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