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One of the great obsessions after the war was how to come to terms with the ‘missing’ - the many thousands of young soldiers who were either vaporised, or blown to pieces, by high explosives; or were drowned and lost in the mud. Last week I tried to tell the heartbreaking search for their missing son Jack, by the Kiplings. For months they haunted hospitals, interviewed soldiers, even dropped leaflets on enemy territory, pleading for information. Even though the Somme still reveals bodies today, Jack Kipling was never found.

The Mayo Peace Park committee are organising a tour to the battlefields, museums, and cemeteries where the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines from Mayo fought and fell in World War I. One thousand two hundred names of the Mayo fallen, the majority from World War I, are commemorated at the Peace Park in Castlebar.