The letter informing Mrs. Williston that her son’s body has been exhumed and re-buried in a new cemetery. (Jim Rutherford.)

Thomas Williston

The body was that of Thomas Williston, who died of his wounds while in a German POW camp.

This 1924 letter informs a Mrs. Williston of Bayside, New Brunswick, that her son’s body has been exhumed and re-buried in a new cemetery “in order to secure the reverent maintenance of the graves in perpetuity." The body was that of Thomas Williston, who died of his wounds while in a German POW camp. After the war, former battlefields were scoured for signs of bodies or “field graves.” Thousands of bodies were exhumed during the process and re-interred in official cemeteries overseen by the Imperial (later, Commonwealth) War Graves Commission.

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