our oh first speaker is andrew robert shaw, a military historian, author and broadcaster.ously the head of education at the national army museum in london. after that, director of the royal logistics museum in cam berlee. he lectures for the norwegian army and is providing historical consultation for a series of events planned by the bbc entitled the first world war with at home. for over 25 years he's led several archaeological projects on the western front. many of which have been featured in television series like finding the fallen, the trench detectives and time team. he's the author of 15 books including digging the ch

robert shaw's presentation. for those of you that have never tried to identify a set of human remains, this is incredibly difficult work and very important stuff. my primary job is for the "uss monitor" when we recovered the turret in 2002, we found the remains of two u.s. sailors inside the turret and over the course of about ten years, we worked really closely with the joint pacific account and command of hawaii to try and identify those remains. full dna analysis. we did facial reconstruction through louisiana state university. we knew there were 16 sailors lost so we knew generally out of a pool

our oh first speaker is andrew robert shaw, a military historian, author and broadcaster. he was previously the head of education at the national army museum in london. after that, director of the royal logistics museum in cam berlee. he lectures for the norwegian army and is providing historical consultation for a series of events planned by the bbc entitled the first world war with at home. for over 25 years he's led several archaeological projects on the western front. many of which have been featured in television series like finding the fallen, the trench detectives and time team. he's the author of 15 books including digging the trenches, archaeology of the western front which came out in hard cover in 2008 and just released this year in paper back. he was given the prestigious honor of be ing named a fellow of the society of anti-qaries in london. he'll share his work on ark kolg in 1914 and 9i1915. please welcome andrew robbershaw. [ applause ] >> good morning, everybody. thank you very much for the invitation for the memorial. thank you very much for turning out

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