Re-burial Of The Remains Of Seven British WW1 Soldiers Takes Place Near The Fields Where They Fell

People stand beside the flag draped coffin of Captain (Capt) Henry John Innes Walker (known to his family as Jack), a New Zealand national who served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in World War One at a burial service for him alongside a unknown soldier from the same regiment and a further five unknown British soldiers of unknown regiments at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) New Irish Farm Cemetery on April 18, 2018 in Ypres, Belgium. The burials of the seven fallen soldiers with full military honours was attended by members of Capt Walker’s family including great nephews Alistair and Allan Innes-Walker, and great, great nephew Jack Innes-Walker who travelled from Australasia. The remains of Capt Walker and the six unknown soldiers were found during a planned archaeological dig in the western side of the village of St Julien were they lay after being killed during the Second Battle of Ypres. Captain Walker was recorded as being killed on 25 April 1915, aged 25. The burial service, one of a number that continue to happen around the area that contained the Western Front comes in the 100th anniversary year of the end of the First World War.