>>I hope your relative made it back.

He did. Modest about what happened till the end, as so many were.

FWIW: in WWI my grandfather stepped up to a machine gun whose previous 5 operators had been killed one by one by German sniper. Something caused the grandfather to turn his head at the perfect moment so that the sniper's bullet passed through his cheek and he survived, which is why I am here. With my sense of irony, in my youth I enjoyed visiting the War Memorial museum to gaze at the name of my grandfather wrongly listed amongst the WWI dead. Such error could be down to superb army recordkeeping or more than one soldier sharing a name, so that we usurped a grandfather of a family that cannot complain as they never came to be.

In these cheerful times, perhaps we should think of that name as an early example of fake news and a counter to the old saying that "the only bad publicity is an obituary notice"...