Legacies of War member Alison Fell was interviewed for a recent article in the Yorkshire post.
One of the reasons we have such precise, and sobering, figures is down to the meticulous work of organisations such as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), established a hundred years ago this month. By April 1915, a war graves unit had been attached to the British Army tasked with recording the details of those killed. However, two years later with no end to the conflict in sight and the number of casualties escalating, it was felt that a separate government body was needed so the Imperial War Graves Commission (later the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) was established by Royal Charter.
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