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Gerald 08-07-13 11:32 AM

News Magazine WWI tourism: Looking for your family hero
 
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As the 100th anniversary of WWI approaches, growing numbers are tracing their genealogy back to Europe's battlefields. Matthew Davis went to Ramicourt in France to find the spot where his great-grandfather won the Victoria Cross.
Many people who are looking for their heroes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23109590


Note: 7 August 2013 Last updated at 00:09 GMT

Fubar2Niner 08-07-13 11:36 AM

Very nice link mate. Thanks :up:

Gerald 08-07-13 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner (Post 2096491)
Very nice link mate. Thanks :up:

Thank ya :)

August 08-07-13 12:33 PM

I'd like to find my Great Grandfathers grave, if one exists.

The original August. According to his death certificate which I had translated:

He was an Infantryman with the 6th Company of the 8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, 16th Bavarian Infantry Division. He fell on October 3rd 1918 about 7 o'clock in the morning in Flanders Belgium somewhere between Roulers, Iseghem and Ardoye.

http://home.comcast.net/~rdsterling/...ccad14abeef220

Oberon 08-07-13 02:36 PM

I would like to go to Messines and see where my great-grandfather got his military medal, and visit the graves of two of my relatives that I know died, one at Verdun in 1918 (great-granduncle), and another at Roclincourt during the Battle of Arras in 1917 (great-great-grandfather).

Stealhead 08-07-13 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by August (Post 2096563)
I'd like to find my Great Grandfathers grave, if one exists.

The original August. According to his death certificate which I had translated:

He was an Infantryman with the 6th Company of the 8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, 16th Bavarian Infantry Division. He fell on October 3rd 1918 about 7 o'clock in the morning in Flanders Belgium somewhere between Roulers, Iseghem and Ardoye.

http://home.comcast.net/%7Erdsterlin...ccad14abeef220


There is a large WWI German grave site in Belgium if he was properly identified he probably has a grave there.Langermark is the name.


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