British Field Graves of the men who were Buried close to where they fell in 1940

Well worked out you two.

 

A Royal Naval rating buried without a name in St Malo. Reason - no ID tags left with the body to identify him. Well, not quite true...there was a tag simply with the number 123.107 which has so far not been identified despite many hours of researching. This is not the original gravestone of course. He was exhumed/re-buried after the war. I understand that the exhumation of unknown soldiers/roadside graves was carried out by GCU's (Grave Concentration Units). Does anyone have knowledge of where records of these units might be kept? I am particularly interested in GCU 87 which was active in France.

 

Grave of an unknown soldier. Near Dunkirk. Photo from my collection.
Keith