In a solemn ceremony held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Messines Ridge Cemetery in Belgium today, the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), also known as the ‘MOD War Detectives,’ organised a burial service for three soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War I.
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Recovered by archaeologists as part of a potato farm expansion project in Neuve Eglise, Belgium, the soldiers were identified as members of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Various artefacts found near their remains, combined with information from war diaries and records, indicated that they likely died between April 13-15, 1918, during the Battle of the Lys.
