The JCCC is also responsible for the marking of Service funded graves, arranging payments from the MoD to the deceased’s estate, and arranging commemorative funeral services and answering enquiries on historic casualties.
Commemorations & Licensing
The JCCC has a small team that answers enquires relating to individual military fatalities outside the recent past and co-ordinates investigations following the discovery of human remains of personnel killed in the First and Second World Wars,. This fascinating work involves attempts to identify the casualty and trace their next of kin or descendants. We will then arrange an appropriate military funeral in the country concerned, if that is the wish of the family.
The Commemorations Team is also responsible for the issuing of licenses (on behalf of the Secretary of State) under the Protection of Military Remains Act, to groups wishing to carry out archaeological investigations at aircraft (British, American or German) crash sites in the UK. (See link to Aviation Archaeology page).
The JCCC also advises the CWGC on the validity of claims from members of the public suggesting identities for bodies buried as “Unknown Soldiers, Sailors or Airmen”. Identities will only be confirmed and the headstone on the grave changed where the identity can be “proved beyond all reasonable doubt".
Contact us:
To contact a member of the JCCC Post Death Administration Team please write to:
Service Personnel & Veterans Agency,
JCCC, Room G35,
Innsworth House,
Imjin Barracks,
Gloucester. GL3 1HW.
or
Telephone 01452 712612 Ext 6303 (Commemorations), 6304 (Graves), 5680 (IHT), 6323 (Estates), or 7495.
Email: jccc@spva.mod.uk