Mystery of thousands of ‘unknown soldiers’ lying in WWI graves could finally be resolved after astonishing discovery …
‘They are the unknown soldiers laid to rest in anonymous graves after dying in the bloody battlefields and trenches of the Great War.
But the identities of tens of thousands of First World War soldiers buried in tombs marked ‘Unknown Soldier’ or ‘Known Only Unto God’ could finally be revealed after the discovery of a vast forgotten archive.
The data looks sure to provide great comfort to those thousands of British families who know they have a relative who died in the ‘war to end wars’, but have never been able to pinpoint the final resting place of their remains.
British historian Peter Barton unearthed the staggering archive, virtually untouched since 1918, in the basement of the Red Cross headquarters in Geneva. The international organisation knew it had a vast amount of information stored there, but Mr Barton is the first researcher to study it in detail.
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Amazing discovery!