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Originally Posted by August
My own great grandfather August was a WW1 German infantryman who was killed in action on Oct 3rd 1918. As far as our family knows his body was never recovered.
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August,
I know a guy whose grandfather was mia since Oct. 7th 1918.
Almost 90 years later, in 2007, the German War Graves Commission informed the family that they had found the grave.
The story behind:
The Brits had buried the identified German soldier with full military honours on one of their cemeteries by the end of WW I but it took all those many years to pass the information from the British to the German War Graves Commission to the family.
My point is:
With your great-grandfathers name, surname, birth date and birth place, you could do a research in the German archives.
The important part is that the Commission would keep your request in their data base and that way you can be sure that if they should ever find out something about your great-grandfather, they will contact you, even 100 years later.
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