Lost WW2 soldier finally laid to rest 03.10.12
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- A 19 year old British soldier killed in the Second World War was finally laid to rest at a Commonwealth War Cemetery near Arnhem in the Netherlands.
It took years of scientific analysis to identify Private Lewis Curtis whose remains were only found in 2003.
In the autumn of 1944 the Dutch city of Arnhem was where the Allies launched Operation Market Garden -- an airborne offensive that was supposed to take them swiftly across the Rhine and into Nazi Germany.
Instead, a combination of bad weather, supply and reinforcement problems and stiff German resistance led to heavy losses.
One of those killed was nineteen-year old Private Lewis Curtis of 5th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment.
Almost seven decades later he was finally laid to rest at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
His remains missing since the Second World War were discovered at a building site near Arnhem in 2003 although it took many years more to confirm their identity.
For more information visit www.bfbs.com/news/top-story/lost-ww2-soldier-finally-laid-rest-60867.html
Proud that people still honoring fallen veterans. Love and respect from Germany, your friend, and not an enemy.
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rest well my friend
Glad to see these fallen heroes are still getting laid to rest 70 years later.
May they all never be forgotten: be returned to their loved ones, and, to their God. Peace, light and happiness, and thank you for giving your young life to ensure the freedoms that I enjoy today. R.I.P.
The life that I have is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours
The love that I have of the life that I have
Is yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pulse
For the peace of my years in the long green grass will be yours and yours and yours.
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