Fragments of Remembrance: Finding Lost Boys

Over one hundred years have now passed since the ending of the Great War of 1914-18, yet still, the grief of ordinary families is carried down through generations. People are still searching for the last resting places of loved ones. Their Lost Boys.So, can anything new, that has not already been written about war and remembrance, still tell a forgotten story? The answer is yes and written here, through the eyes of Hampstead Pals.Created in 1978 by a small group of Metropolitan Police Officers known as the 'Hampstead Pals', this battlefield touring group regularly visit the evocative battlefields of the Western Front 1914-18, and, with the unfailing assistance of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, locates the graves of lost family members. This is the simple but extremely moving story of graves found and names on memorials located, not only of grandfathers but of uncles and great uncles, in each case, personally told by the descendants themselves as their search to recover their '