An historian with a passion for local knowledge has shed further light on the life of a once-forgotten WWI soldier.
For 105 years second lieutenant Wilfred John Massey Lynch, from West Derby, lay in a nameless grave in France after being shot down in one of the most devastating military attacks of the war. The 25-year-old was killed by German troops on April 4, 1918, during the latter stages of Operation Michael - the first of three phases of the German Spring Offensive, aimed at crushing the Allied Forces before the arrival of American reinforcements.
His final resting place, and the circumstances of his tragic early death, were tracked down by the Ministry of Justice's "war detectives", and a gravestone was finally unveiled in a memorial service on March 23.
