= Сообщение: 11940 из 12492 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Ward Dossche 2:292/854 11 Nov 22 21:54:39 Кому : Sean Rima 11 Nov 22 21:54:39 Тема : Re: Be conscious about this ... FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+1a391a46 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:263/1.1+636e0da1 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:460/256+0000022d ============================================================================== SR>WD> "On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month"
SR> We must never forget
Every year I head to Flanders' Fields where the poppies still grow...
Achille-Adhemar Delafontaine is the brother of my grandmother. He vanished in WW1 ... his grave became lost ... Days before she passed away in 1979 my grandmother still talked about him as if he had left that morning ... 64 years apart.
M.I.A. does not always mean that, There can be traces and I was determined to find his grave, for my grandma's sake, even though authorities claim he went MIA.
So guess what? I was able from records to determine what his preliminary burial site had been and what happened to the remains later ... so he is buried on a military cemetary as an "Unknown" together with 21 others. So I know that when I stop at each of those 22 graves I will have visited Achile-Adhemar's grave site ... and I went to my grandmother's grave and told her "I found him".
Next I started to contact politicians to unearth all those unknown remains on that cemetary to extract DNA if and where possible and see where it leads us, and in extension open up the graves of all the other unknowns and perform the same procedure.
It has been a matter, Sean, which always touched me deep and I find it a shame that countries do not use the most modern techniques available to grant soldiers a known grave which up to that point had been denied to them by the fortunes of war.
The first URL are his abridged service records, the second is the report of the search for his remains through 1923 ...
It took even years before he was legally called "deceased" and his personal affairs could be wound up.
