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Mystery of lost Cambusnethan soldier solved

 
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:03 am    Post subject: Mystery of lost Cambusnethan soldier solved Reply with quote

Mystery of lost soldier is solved

In December last year, at Cambusnethan Cemetery in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, the Commission erected a headstone to Private Dennis Doyle. Until last year it was thought he was missing, presumed dead during the Somme offensive, and was therefore listed on the Thiepval Memorial. However, it had recently been dicovered that he had been wounded in 1916 but later died in the UK following his evacuation to hospital.

Last week, the family of Private Doyle visited his grave for the first time, almost a century after his death. They too had been unaware of his presence in the cemetery, until a local historian, Joe O'Raw, contacted them and the Commission. Their visit was covered in the local newspapers.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/mystery-of-lost-soldier-is-solved-94-years-on-1.1007945

Details courtesy of CWGC.

MISSING NO MORE

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jim

Thanks for posting it here. A good result for Joe O'Raw who helped the Doyle family.

Kind regards

Adam
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