Invisible Sacrifice: Commemorating Those Who Served Without Reaching the Frontline

I will change my narrative.

I will develop my research to not only include the Swedish born soldiers, who fought and fell in the Great War, and are buried along the western front, In Belgium and France, but also those Swedes who became a soldier in an organisation, left their home base and went for service to another country.

I will include those who met their fate on their way to the battlefields, and those who were soldiers and officers who were placed behind the lines to support the others who went to the frontline.

I will also include those who served and survived, as I think their stories are very important to remember. They had the chance to tell the world when they came home, even if some of them just wanted to forget.

Does this mean that I will include those who went from their homes to the unit camps, but never left for service? Probably I will, but I will change this gradually, to maybe one day end up with a solid database with facts regarding all of those Swedish born soldiers and other individuals, like nurses, who became a person in a organisation and sacrificed their life trying their best to change the outcome of the Great War. I have now made a slight change to my title and subtitle on my web page, to reflect my expanding research.

I will remember them all.

Background

The armistice occurred on November 11th, 1918, at 11 minutes over 11 am, but the war continued after that on several other locations. According to Commonwealth War Grave Commission, CWGC, 31^st August 1921 marks the date when the First World War officially ended. It is also the date that the last casualties who died during or as a result of the conflict are commemorated by the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC).

The official, latest date for an American death in WWI, often recognized for eligibility for federal, government-furnished memorialization is also August 31^st, 1921.

The Swedes at Brookwood American Cemetery

In this small article I will mention some of those soldiers who went towards the battlefields, served in their units, but never came home again, even if they never saw the frontline.

This is not fully accurate, as one of the soldiers went down with a American transport ship, which was torpedoed by German submarines, and in my mind I call that a frontline as well, but not on land.

⇒ Read the entire article on the Swedes on the Western Front website here:

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