Their bodies – discovered in De Reutel in Belgium during civil engineering works – have been buried alongside those of the comrades they once served beside after extensive research identified them. They included a young soldier from Pateley Bridge, a sergeant from Eston in North Yorkshire, and a private who had lived in Burton Leonard, who all fell during heavy fighting around the town of Ypres.

Missing Yorkshire soldiers laid to rest more than a century after their deaths i...

Remembrance Day has come and gone – but we will still remember them.

Nine British soldiers who served and died in battle of Passchendaele during the First World War, are laid to rest more than a century after their deaths with full military honours at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's (CWGC) Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres in Belgium.

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We will remember the nine Great War soldiers finally laid to rest - The Yorkshire Post says