Sentence examples for graves registration from inspiring English sources

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.

"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".

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.

When the war began, the Union Army had no burial details, no graves registration units, no means to notify next of kin, no provision for decent burial, no systematic way to identify or count the dead, no national cemeteries in which to bury them.

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.

After Arnhem was liberated in April 1945, Grave Registration Units of the British 2nd Army moved into the area and began to locate the Allied dead.