AP PHOTOS: Family from 2 continents unites for WWI burial
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(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). Soldiers watch as a man prepares to lay a poppy wreath for British Private Thomas Edmundson during a re-burial service at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full militar...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). A newly engraved epitaph on the gravestone of British Private Thomas Edmundson during a re-burial service at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full military honors on W...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). Family member David Hill, from Cambridge, England, holds the flag from the casket of British Private Thomas Edmundson during a re-burial service at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson wa...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). Soldiers from the Rifles Brigade play the Last Post during a reburial service for British Private Thomas Edmundson at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full military ho...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). The CWGC Perth Cemetery is reflected in the horn of a musician during a reburial service for British Private Thomas Edmundson in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full military honors on Wedn...
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YPRES, Belgium (AP) - Family members from two continents reunited on Wednesday for the solemn burial of a distant relative who died over a century ago in World War I.
Private Thomas Edmundson from Sunderland, England, was just 20 years old when he was killed in action in April 1915 during some of the bloodiest fighting on the Western Front.
He was hastily buried with some of his comrades beneath a simple marker and his body was not recovered after the war.
In 2014, his remains were uncovered in a field near Ypres during routine building works. DNA testing confirmed his identity in 2017.
Gary Edmundson, a relative, said: "The war and the sacrifice of these soldiers had such an impact on the world, I found ... I couldn't miss coming."
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(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). Soldiers watch as a man prepares to lay a poppy wreath for British Private Thomas Edmundson during a re-burial service at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full militar...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). A newly engraved epitaph on the gravestone of British Private Thomas Edmundson during a re-burial service at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full military honors on W...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). Family member David Hill, from Cambridge, England, holds the flag from the casket of British Private Thomas Edmundson during a re-burial service at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson wa...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). Soldiers from the Rifles Brigade play the Last Post during a reburial service for British Private Thomas Edmundson at CWGC Perth Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full military ho...
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). The CWGC Perth Cemetery is reflected in the horn of a musician during a reburial service for British Private Thomas Edmundson in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Edmundson was buried with full military honors on Wedn...
