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The remains of a New Zealand soldier killed in World War I have been identified more than a century after his death.
Excavations of a Western Front battlefield have uncovered the remains, and remarkably well-preserved possessions, of Henry John Innes Walker.
The area - in the West Flanders Langemark - was the site of the Second Battle of Ypres.
After a gas attack on April 22, 1915, there was heavy fighting in the area.
Walker, an Aucklander who had joined the British Army and rose to become a captain with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment's 1st Battalion, was killed in action on April 25, 1915 - at around the time the Anzacs landed several hundred kilometres away at Gallipoli.
More information
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701728
Here is the man himself
LEST WE FORGET
Excavations of a Western Front battlefield have uncovered the remains, and remarkably well-preserved possessions, of Henry John Innes Walker.
The area - in the West Flanders Langemark - was the site of the Second Battle of Ypres.
After a gas attack on April 22, 1915, there was heavy fighting in the area.
Walker, an Aucklander who had joined the British Army and rose to become a captain with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment's 1st Battalion, was killed in action on April 25, 1915 - at around the time the Anzacs landed several hundred kilometres away at Gallipoli.
More information
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701728
Here is the man himself
LEST WE FORGET
