Grave of Lanarkshire soldier identified more than a century after his death

The graves of three previously unknown First World War soldiers were rededicated on Wednesday, having been identified more than a century after they fell (Crown Copyright/PA) -

A Lanarkshire soldier who died in Belgium during the First World War is one of three previously unknown soldiers whose graves were rededicated in a service on Wednesday, having been identified more than a century after they fell.

2nd Lieutenant Hugh Barr, from East Kilbride, was 28 when he was killed during an attack on the German-occupied town of Werwick on September 30 1918 while serving with the 35th Battalion Machine Gun Corps.