The UK Ministry of Defence reported on 2 October 2026 that the graves of five soldiers who went missing during the Battle of Normandy had been identified. Rededication services were held at Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Normandy on 29 and 30 September and 1 October 2026, and a commemorative service for all five was held at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer on 30 September 2026.

The soldiers were Private George Chapman of 1st Battalion The Herefordshire Regiment, Private Vincent Coia of 7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders, Lance Corporal Reginald Cyril Dewey of 4th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment, Serjeant Frederick Albert Harrison of 1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment and Corporal Henry Thomas Read of 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade. All had previously been commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial to the missing; the commission has replaced their headstones with named markers.

The services were organised by the Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre. Caseworker Rosie Barron said the work of identifying graves in Normandy would continue, and the commission’s head of commemorations, Dr James Wallis, said its staff considered it a privilege to care for the graves.