Remains of British Soldier finally identified!

Posts : 600 Join date : 2010-01-07 Location : UK

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thanks joe

Fantastic ! after all this time .

I was watching a programme over the holidays where they were trying to identify the remains of the fallen from WW1 who are still being found .

I think it was called "Finding the Fallen" - very interesting but very sad too .

Here it is if anyone is interested;

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My suggestion is that you don't jump the gun just yet.
Ken

Rather enigmatic ken?

Is there still some question over the identity because the gun seems to have been well and truly jumped !

Hi Gary. It was more of confusion than jumping the gun.
To keep it short. John Young was asked to help identify the tunic button found among the remains. He sent a Photo of a person by the name of Keane, but the intention was to show the cap-badge not the person. It was then assumed that Keane’s remains were found.

This is the original link that caused the confusion; the remains are still under examination, and have not been identified yet.

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Posts : 1095 Join date : 2009-01-14 Location : East London

All clear now. Idea

Posts : 527 Join date : 2009-02-28

I always thought this was understood last year when it came to light.

Hi all , thanks for clearing it up (again! ) - i see what i have done , i followed the link which Joe posted at the start of this thread and the date at the top of the Daily Mail is the current date , not the date of the original article so i thought the info was updated and confirmed .

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