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Canadian Soldier Found After 100 Years | Calgary News
A Canadian soldier buried for over a century in northern France has finally been identified — Private Albert Henry Detmold, a Manitoba farmer who died at age 33 in the brutal Battle of Hill 70. Found with personal items including a maple leaf cap badge, his remains were matched using DNA and historical records after a painstaking effort by French and Canadian experts. His great-niece, Liana Walters, called the discovery “like something out of a movie.” Detmold received a full military funeral in Loos-en-Gohelle, draped in a Canadian flag, with rabbi and chaplains leading the ceremony — a…
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