Sentence examples for grave registration from inspiring English sources

Ernie's body will be brought back to Army grave registration officers.

After the liberation of the Netherlands, the Grave Registration units of 2nd Army began the task of identifying the British dead.

He set up grave registration units, new cemeteries and organised the relocation of existing graves in remote areas to the new cemeteries.

As reports of the grave registration work became public, the Commission began to receive letters of enquiry and requests for photographs of graves from relatives of deceased soldiers.

From the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Commission organized grave registration units and, planning ahead based on the experience gained from the First World War, earmarked land for use as cemeteries.

The Graves Registration Commission became the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries in the spring of 1916 in recognition of the fact that the scope of work began to extend beyond simple grave registration and began to include responding to enquiries from relatives of those killed.

From 1920 to 1922, Lawson planned military cemeteries in France, England, and Belgium for the U.S. Graves Registration Service, Paris.

We dug a wide swath and found nothing else and turned in the tag to quartermaster graves registration the next day.

The graves registration soldier went to the site, which was just behind a German pillbox, about 30 yards from the river.

Only after the Allies defeated Germany and Japan did the Army send soldiers of what was then called Graves Registration to recover bodies and either bury them in military cemeteries abroad or ship them home, depending on the wishes of the families.

"This bigot, some lieutenant, just came over and said, 'Get your gear, you're checking out in half an hour,' and they sent me to graves registration where I had to dig up bodies".