In 2017, a Russian journalist told the British Consulate in Moscow that he had found two unmarked graves on the Rybachy Peninsula in northern Russia.
The graves simply noted that they were of two unknown British airmen, so the Consulate and the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) set about identifying the two men.
The two young pilots had evidently drifted along the Norwegian coast until their dingy beached in Rybachy, a desolate and bleak peninsula jutting out from northern coast of Russia. Nomadic people in the area reported finding the bodies of the two men dead in the dingy.
Despite being pitched into the sea in the middle of the summer, the conditions were still extremely cold and they probably died of hypothermia.
They two organizations discovered who the two men were and then set out to find relatives.
The Ministry of Defence and the JCCC were going to have a re-dedication ceremony in south England in 2017 and wanted to have relatives of Burke and Beardsley in attendance.
The JCCC must be like the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
--GreGen
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