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Remains of 15 British soldiers discovered at Beaucamps-Ligny
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French newspaper La Voix du Nord has reported that the bodies of 15 British soldiers, believed from buttons to be of the York & Lancaster Regiment and to have been among those killed here on 18 October 1914.
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Chris Baker is the owner and editor of the Old Barbed Wire. A former Chairman of the Western Front Association, he is a full-time military researcher, historian and tour guide. His first book "The Battle for Flanders: German defeat on the Lys, 1918" is published later this year. Chris, who is also author of The Long, Long Trail website and founder of the Great War Forum, lives in Warwickshire in England.