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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Paul Cargill

Service held for First World War soldier more than 100 years after his death

The body of a young Glaswegian soldier believed to have fallen in battle during the First World War has finally been laid to rest with full military honours more than a century after his death.

Lance Serjeant Robert Brand, of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, was buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Messines Ridge Cemetery in Belgium on Wednesday.

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