What do soldiers do with enemy dead bodies?

In some armies, units from the Medical Corps or the Military Police are removing dead enemy corpses from the battlefield. Often, this is done a long time after the battle. They are then handed over to their country’s National Red Cross from where they will be transferred to the enemy’s Red Cross organization.

Do soldiers in war bury their enemies?

Yes. It is imposed by Article 17 of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, of 12 August 1949, but similar rules were already found in the Geneva Conventions of 1906 and 1929. The dead, of all sides, are always buried. Often in mass graves.

What happens to bodies after a battle?

After being stripped of their belongings the dead, and occasionally still barely living, would often be buried in mass graves (sometimes with bodies from both sides unceremoniously thrown in). For example, human scavengers would come through and rob the dead of their teeth, which would then be used to make dentures.

Who cleans dead bodies?

Aftermath
Aftermath is a national bioremediation company with nearly 20 years of experience remediating areas where dead bodies have been removed.

What happened to the bodies at Waterloo?

Historian John Sadler states that “Many who died that day in Waterloo were buried in shallow graves but their bodies were later disinterred and their skeletons taken. They were ground down and used as fertiliser and taken back home to be used on English crops.

How were dead bodies used in the trenches?

Many men killed in the trenches were buried almost where they fell. If a trench subsided, or new trenches or dugouts were needed, large numbers of decomposing bodies would be found just below the surface. These corpses, as well as the food scraps that littered the trenches, attracted rats.