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Belgium, Ypres (AP) — British and Canadian authorities killed seven soldiers in World War I over a century ago. did. Their bodies were found during the construction of a gas pipeline near Ypres, Belgium.
Soldiers were found in two separate burial grounds near the Belgian town in the heart of Flanders Fields. Hundreds of thousands of people died there between 1914 and 18 in a landscape of hell crushed by muddy shells. The
ceremony took place on Thursday at the Commonwealth War Cemetery near Ypres.
During work from 2014 to 2016, a total of 63 sets of World War I soldier remains were discovered by archaeologists.
"Remember, we reconnect with private John Lambert. He was a mechanic who earns 40 cents a day ... Apply to earn $ 1 a day, and soon his sister Gave him 60 cents a day, "said Rev. Gary Watt, referring to Canada's private John Lambert of the New Fundland Regiment, one of the soldiers. ..
Lambert was identified by DNA. He died on August 16, 1917.
"He exaggerated his age to respond more positively and easily to the call to serve freedom and democracy," Watt continued. "Private John Lambert had the common sense of the common good. He knew that complacency did not stop the deprivation of freedom."
Five of the bodies are unknown. It came from a British soldier, and one unknown German soldier was also reburied. Archaeologists have discovered an artifact that connects unknown soldiers to Britain and Germany.
Advances in DNA technology have made it possible to identify unknown soldiers from World War I. Earlier this month, he was the nephew of the English poet William Wordsworth and was recently identified by DNA research. — A funeral was held in France 105 years after he died.
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Contributed by Samuel Petrequin of Brussels.
