Three men fallen at Ypres found
British History, Research, War Graves
Posted Thursday, April 13th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
The BBC reports that three dead British soldiers from the First World War were discovered.
The remains were found in a sector of the Ypres salient - a bulge in the frontline - called Plug Street Wood.
Two of the bodies had no identification but the third had an ID tag with a surname and number.
Based on information from the 1901 census the archaeologists believe Pte Lancaster was born in Preston in 1883.
He died in November 1914 during the first months of the war. His name stands on the memorial to the missing at Plug Street Wood.