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Old 10-05-05, 07:31 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by lesrae
In case you hadn't heard of it, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a great site at www.cwgc.org which has a huge database of commonwealth casualties in WWI and WWII. I used it recently to locate my great-grandfather's grave marker (Pvt Robert Ross, he was killed in 1915 at Loos) so that my mother could visit it while on a trip over there.

Here's an example of their entries, for the CO of HMS SWORDFISH: http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/cas...sualty=2370300
I wish there was something similar for the Central powers forces.
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