You can't keep a Tommy down!

The remains of 15 British soldiers who were killed in the early months of World War I were found in northern France this week 95 years after their deaths.

The Tommies have been identified as volunteers of the York and Lancaster Regiment killed between October 18 and 20, 1914 in a gunbattle with German troops near the castle of Flandres de Beaucamps-Ligny.

The bodies have been transferred to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission which maintains several cemetries in the former battlefields of northeastern France.

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