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Belgium, FranceApril 25, 2013

Their Last Resting Place

By Christine Salins

No one knows where Septimus Killigrew or the other eight men of the 17th Battalion C Company who died with him are buried. On the night of August 2, 1916, they were moving through the trenches on Pozieres Ridge on their way to a position to bomb when three shells in quick succession killed them instantly.

Belgium, Postcard of the WeekApril 22, 2013

Postcard of the Week: Ypres, Belgium

By Christine Salins

In 2009, we paused before the Menin Gate, a memorial to the British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. Five of Maurie’s great uncles almost certainly passed through the gate on their way to the front lines.