Unknown British soldier's body found on Monte Spaduro

Very unfortunate further delay

 

Now looks like being October.

 

Thanks for the news. Living in Bologna it will be my duty to be present at the ceremony.
We await confirmation of the new date

 

I and my husband will be there and also the person who found him.

 

The ceremony due to take place on 13th October has now been posponed yet again due to Covid.

 

I know how you feel! So does Frank de Planta & Gary Tankard.

 

sadly, delayed again - 76 years and counting.

 

Now supposed to be April.....

 

& then probably October. Six month intervals. My thoughts are with you both & keep going in your Lady cave .

Stu.

 

Has he now been laid to rest, Janet, or still delayed?

 

Postponed until late April 2022, I am told.

The date will be set early next year.

 

Thank you.

 

At last.

The burial will take place on 27 April in Bologna War Cemetery.

Vitellino

 

Caubeens duly tipped.

 

Living in Bologna it was my duty to be there but family reasons prevent me from being there. Very sorry.

 

Unfortunately I won't be there and neither will my friend who found him - he is blocked in China, where he works.

 

This thread started on the June 4, 2015. What next? Painfull.

 

Unfortunately there are several others (se earlier posts) who were missing after actions on Monte Spaduro during the winter 44-45 whose bodies have not been found. I understand that there were a number of deserters too, but don't have access to this information.

What I would like from the MOD, but won't get access to, is an updated list of all the possibilities I sent them which tells me whether or not they were investigated and what the outcome was.

Here are the four from the original list I sent them.

Winder and Muldoon were eliminated on DNA grounds. I have no idea whether Johnstone and Evans were ever followed up.

Vitellino

 

shame indeed… we plan to be at Mt Spaduro on 5th July and perhaps will stop by Bologna cemetery. Will also visit Santerno Valley CWGC where some of his mates will rest.

 

Despite so much great effort, the reburial took place yesterday (27th April 2022) without a name being added to the final resting place.
Unknown World War Two soldier buried with military honours in Italy | CWGC