the german Posted 26 September , 2003 Share Posted 26 September , 2003 Hello, I would like to ask for your help. Today, I got this photo of an English cemetery. Does someone have any idea, where this could be located? I also would like to know more about the buried soldiers. The writer of the postcard was a member of the Reserve Infanterie Regiment Nr. 77. When he wrote the card, he had been sent to a Minenwerfer Abteilung (VII. Armeekorps) to get a trench mortar training. It is dated Carvin, August 15th 1915 and he tells his sister, that he has just arrived at Carvin. So there is a possibility, that this picture was taken before and not in the area of Carvin ! The R.I.R. 77 was located near La Bassee in July/August 1915. There are 21 crosses on the photo and each one has a black ribbon. They are numbered from left to right, starting with 1. I am able to read the names on No. 1 - 3 : 1 Samuel Grice 2 Joseph Griffin 3 John Bennett Beside " R.I.P." , there are the letters " IL ". I know, what R.I.P. means, but what stands IL for? Thank you Hinrich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hill 60 Posted 26 September , 2003 Share Posted 26 September , 2003 Hinrich - I might be well off mark here, but I had a (very) quick check of the CWGC site and found that there are the following men buried in Lille Southern Cemetery: S. Grice, 2nd Notts & Derby Regt, grave III.A.1 J. B. Griffen, Notts & Derby Regt, grave III.A.2 J. C. Bennett, East Yorks, grave III.A.3 All died in 1914. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 26 September , 2003 Admin Share Posted 26 September , 2003 Looking in The Silent Cities, some of the French graves look similar too in the photo of Lille Southern. I'm afraid I can't put in a picture, butI'm sure some kind soul can! Regards, Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 26 September , 2003 Share Posted 26 September , 2003 Picture is very typical of the photos I have seen of early war German cemeteries in France - these men would almost certainly have been wounded prisoners of war, treated by the German medical services in one of the field hospitals near Lille who succumbed to their wounds. I photos of similar graves in POW Camp cemeteries in Germany itself. Can't think what 'IL' might stand for in English; in German... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the german Posted 26 September , 2003 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2003 Hi, thank you all very much for the replies. The name on the 2. cross is definetly "Griffin" (wrong spelling by a German?) I don`t have an idea, what "IL" could mean in German. It is written on every single cross. Hinrich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 27 September , 2003 Share Posted 27 September , 2003 ILMO = In loving memory of often written on gravestones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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