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The following cases are planned to take place in June & July 2024:

18 June

• 2pm A burial service for an unknown British soldier of an unknown regiment. The service will be held at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, France.

19 June

• 10.30am A burial service for an unknown British soldier of an unknown regiment. The service will be held at Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, France

20 June

• 10.30am A burial service for 12 unknown British soldiers and officers of the Suffolk Regiment, Royal Fusiliers and unknown regiments. The service will be held at Wancourt British Cemetery, France.

2 July

• 10am A rededication service for L/Cpl Arthur Dowding of 1st Bn Monmouthshire Regiment who died on 3 October 1918. This service will take place at Bellicourt British Cemetery, France.

• 3pm A rededication service for 2/Lt Noel Osborne-Jones, 2/Lt Herbert Taggart and Pte Lionel Grove of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who all died on 8 May 1916. This service will take place at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, France

3 July

• 10.30am A rededication service for Capt. Clifford Nichols of 5th Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers (attached to the 164 Coy Machine Gun Corps) who died on 31 July 1917. This service will take place at Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.

• 3pm A rededication service for Pte George Montague Price of 5th Bn South Wales Borderers who died on 2 October 1917. This service will take place at Chester Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

9 July

• 10.30am A rededication service for CQMS John Doherty MM of 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 22 March 1918. This service will be take place at Savy British Cemetery, France.

10 July

• 10.15am A rededication service for Serjeant Laurence Connell MM of 1st Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 5 October 1918. This service will take place at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium.

• 11.15am A rededication service for Second Lieutenant Joseph Bryson MC att. 9th Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 6 October 1918, and Second Lieutenant William Cunningham att. 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 1 October 1918. This service will take place at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium.

• 3pm A rededication service for Private William McCann of 1st Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 21 October 1918. This service will take place at Stasegem Communal Cemetery, Belgium.

11 July

• 10.30am A rededication service for Corporal Edward Doyle, Private Bertie George Reynolds MM, Lance Corporal James Edward Freer and Lance Corporal George Washington of 1st Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who were killed in action on 28 and 29 September 1918. This service will take place at Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium.

• 2.30pm A rededication service for Captain Valentine Knox Gilliland of 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed in action on 7/8 May 1918. This service will take place at Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension, Belgium.

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:

• Two World War One Soldiers Buried in France

• Officer of the Cheshire Regiment killed in World War One laid to rest in France

• Dundee soldier buried with military honours in France

• Grave of Yorkshire Soldier identified in France

• Graves of five soldiers of the York and Lancaster Regiment identified on the Western Front

• Graves of two World War One soldiers identified in France

• Graves of lost World War One soldiers identified in Belgium

• Grave of Yorkshire Soldier identified in Belgium

• Grave of Derbyshire-born Royal Marine identified in the Netherlands

• 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

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