‘He is buried in a cemetery which holds more than 1100 English dead besides French, Hindus and Germans’ Letter from Lieutenant Stanley Booker , 7th Battalion, the Worcestershire Regiment, about his Corporal, killed by a German shell, France, July 1916 Men killed in fighting were buried where they fell, or taken back behind the front line for burial. The numbers of bodies often meant mass burials in a long trench, and the burial service could be cut short by enemy shelling. Soldiers would go out into No Man’s Land at night to bury bodies in shell holes or shallow graves, or carry the bodies back for burial elsewhere. British and German troops might be out dealing with their dead and ignoring each other. The soldier’s bayonet and helmet marked a grave in No Man’s Land. It could be blown up by shelling. A grave behind the front had a wooden cross, with the soldier’s identity disc nailed to it, or his name painted on it. After the war, many temporary graves were dug up and the bodies transferred to a military cemetery. Bodies are still being found buried on the battlefields today.