![]() The graves of both men were identified after researchers provided the CWGC with evidence suggesting they had been found. It is thanks to men such as Lt Smith and 2nd Lt Massey Lynch, who paid the ultimate sacrifice during such fierce fighting, that the Allies were able to stem the German advance and bring the war to a conclusion later that year. Had the German Spring Offensive of 1918, in which they fell, been successful then the outcome of the First World War could have been very different. It has been a privilege to have contributed to the identification of these two Officers and to have organised these rededication services. Rosie Barron, JCCC case lead recently said: The services, which were organised by the MOD’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), also known as the ‘MOD War Detectives’, were held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Ecoust Military Cemetery near Arras and at Crucifix Corner Cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux, France recently (23 March 2023). The graves of Lieutenant (Lt) Harold Rymer Smith and Second Lieutenant (2ndLt) Wilfred John Massey Lynch, who were killed on the Western Front in the spring of 1918, have finally been marked with headstones which now bear their name more than a hundred years after they died. ![]()
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