I thought this was a fascinating story in the news this morning:

The remains of 3 British soldiers who died on the battlefield at Ypres in 1914 have been recovered by amateur archaeologists. Two of the bodies remain unidentified, but one has been provisionally identified from an eroded identity tag and vestiges of uniform as Pte Richard Lancaster of the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers. The identity tag contained the surname and an ID number.

The remains were found in a sector of the Ypres salient known as Plug Street Wood, in effect a bulge in the frontline.

Based on the 1901 census, the archaeologists believe Pte Lancaster was born in Preston in 1883.

He died in November 1914 during the first months of the First World War. His name is included on the memorial to the missing at Plug Street Wood. If the identification is confirmed his name can be removed from that memorial and his remains can be buried in one of the Ypres war cemeteries.