Walter Oxer, the grandson of World War One soldier Pvt. Ernest Oxer, poses in front of soldiers’ gravestones during a re-burial ceremony in Bois-Grenier, France. Fifteen British World War One soldiers were re-buried at Y Farm Commonwealth cemetery nearly a century after they died in battle. The soldiers were discovered in a field nearby in Beaucamps-Ligny in 2009 and identified through a variety of means, including DNA. Oxer’s grandfather was one of them. |
