British Ambassador Sir Michael Jay, military
top brass and British and French war veterans stood proudly to attention
as Marcel's great-great-nephew and niece, Ben and Sarah Brooks, aged nine
and eleven laid a wreath at his final resting place.
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal
Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment provided the Guard of
Honour.
Major General Robin Grist, the Colonel of the Royal
Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, said: "As one
moves through this part of Northern France in peace and tranquility it is
difficult to imagine what life must have been for young soldiers of
Britain and France as they fought their way through the nightmare of
trench warfare. Yet the fact that the earth still gives up bodies
from that terrible conflict tells us how terrible it must have been."
At this time, six more bodies from the First World War
lay in the morgue of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission awaiting
identification.
