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From: "Colin Chamberlain" <>
Subject: Re: [EOLFHS-MEMBERS] ww II civilian death records
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:15:20 +0000
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Just a quick thought.

If the bodies were not recoverable or identifiable, would they have to be
declared legally dead? If memory serves this could be up to seven years
later.

Colin Chamberlain in Staffs.


On 01/01/2008, eddie popkin <> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> My older sister, who was a young girl during the 2nd WW insists that the
> parents of a cousin were killed by landmine in about 1942, leaving their
> youngest son, who was serving in the army at the time devestated when he
> came back. I cannot find any record of their deaths in the BMD index fpr
> the
> period 1940 to 1944. Were wartime deaths always recorded and/or was there
> a
> seperate list for wartime civilian casualties where the remains may have
> been unrecoverable ?
>
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