Searching for WW1’s fallen soldiers
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The Red Cross and the Remembrance of a Loss
At the beginning of the first world war, if you were quite wealthy and well connected, you could go off to the battlefields of france and belgium. You might even visit the hospitals where wounded soldiers were. A rudyard kipling did this in 19 15 after his son had been killed. But actually earlier than that year, before, a woman called violet cecil lost her son, george, in the first weeks of the war. And so she goes out with her brother in law, george's uncle, to search, ask questions about and search for her son's grave. She eventually finds witnesses the unearthing of george's body in a mass
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