105 years after his death, WWI doughboy finally receives proper burial
By Claire Barrett
Jun 7, 05:22 PM
The burial of the unknown WWI soldier. (American Battle Monuments Commission)
After 105 years, the remains of an American doughboy were finally given a proper burial.
Today, the American Battle Monuments Commission, alongside French and U.S. officials, interred its first Great War unknown since 1988 — the first burial at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France since 1932.
On February 8, 2022, local undertaker Jean-Paul Feval was digging a fresh gravesite in the cemetery at Villers-Sur-Fère, in northeastern France, when he stumbled upon “human bones, along with artifacts that would later include pieces of a helmet, a stretcher, a trench knife and a corroded, unreadable dog tag,” according to a Washington Post report.
The stretcher was a particularly unique find.
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