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Our future services, current appeals and past cases

The following services will take place in September 2024:

26 September

• 11am A burial service for an unknown soldier of The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) and an unknown Scottish soldier. This service is expected to attract a high level of interest and therefore Commonwealth War Graves Commission is running a free ballot to allocate tickets. More information and instructions on how to apply can be found here Burial Service and Inauguration at Loos British Cemetery (cwgc.org). Details of other services to be held in September will be published in due course.

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 Royal Dublin Fusiliers located in Belgium

• Grave of missing soldier identified in Belgium nearly 110 years after his death

• Graves of two World War 1 officers of The Royal Irish Fusiliers identified

• Grave of Donegal soldier identified in France more than 100 years after his death

• Graves of six soldiers of Welsh regiments identified on Western Front

• World War One Soldiers Buried in France

• 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

• 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

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