Posted on 09/15/2007 8:33:55 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
By Jasper Copping Last Updated: 1:29am BST 16/09/2007
He was a young man, like so many others, who fell on the battlefield at Passchendaele. Aged just 29, Private Jack Hunter died in the arms of his younger brother, Jim, who buried him there, on the front line, in a shallow grave.
Jack Hunter, who died at Passchendaele, with his brother Jim Jack Hunter, who died in the first world war, with his brother Jim
Once the guns had fallen silent, Jim returned to look for his brother's body, but the ground had been chewed up by artillery and he could find no trace. So the story remained, unfinished, when Jim himself died, aged 86 in 1977, calling to Jack with his final words.
Now, 90 years after that infamous battle, Jack's body has been recovered, and has become one of the first to be identified using genetic profiling.
He will be buried next month with full military honours at a war cemetery in Belgium at a service attended by Mollie Millis, his 81-year-old niece, whose DNA allowed experts to identify her missing uncle.
The same process, using relatives' DNA to find a match, could lead to the identification of hundreds more First World War casualties. The case of Pte Hunter has led to calls for a DNA database to be set up, storing samples from relatives of missing soldiers to be compared with future finds.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Imagine going out to your garden to dig a spot for daisies and finding that instead!! We find Indian pottery shards here in Arizona, maybe an arrowhead ... NO ordinance! Good Lord. Imagine children playing ... we tried to dig to China when I was a child, my sister and I ... that was on Long Island and what we found was nothing more sinister than sea water LOL put an end to our digging to China. We couldn’t understand how Chinamen weren’t all drowning.
I remember as a small boy 50 years ago visiting the battlefields in France/Belgium. There was still no vegetation, just dirt and mud. We would dig in the dirt looking for bullets and as a result would get gassed from the remnants of gas still in the dirt(similar to tear gas, your nose and eyes would burn and water)
IMO, more like 3,000.
“That looks about 30,000 feet. Certainly within the range of airplanes of the day. Amazing photos nonetheless”
Even if that was in the posibillity of aircraft of the time, it wasn’t possible photographically
The proof is in the photographs, is it not? Or are you suggesting the top one is fake, but accurate?
“The proof is in the photographs, is it not? Or are you suggesting the top one is fake, but accurate?”
I’m suggesting the photos in post 3 were maybe WWII. I could be wrong (I sometimes am)But those photos look too advanced for WWI
The Army should have returned his remains home to be buried by his brother.
Wow. I have been impressed that troops from WWII have been identified. My cousin was MIA for over 40 years.
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