British army honors 20 soldiers killed during WWI battle, their remains found a century later
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Twenty British soldiers are being laid to rest with full military honors in this sleepy northern French village, nearly a century after the First World War battle that claimed their lives.
Workers building a new prison discovered the remains, laid out in a common grave along with 30 German soldiers. The reburial ceremony serves as a reminder of the horrors of World War I, and of why many Europeans a century later are wary of seeing a new conflict on their eastern flank in Ukraine.
The 20 bodies being reburied were among some 60,000 British empire casualties during the 1915 Battle of Loos.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Only one of the bodies discovered could be identified thanks to an ID tag: 22-year-old Private William McAleer of the tiny Scottish seaside town of Leven.