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The government announced Saturday that the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces have succeeded in identifying the remains of four First World War soldiers found in Hallu, France, as those of Lieutenant Clifford Neelands, Lance Sergeant John Lindell, Private Lachlan McKinnon, and Private William Simms.

The announcement was made in Winnipeg by James Bezan, Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of National Defence, in honour of the fact that the soldiers were with the Winnipeg Grenadiers when they died in the Somme region of France, according to a DND news release. Their deaths came following the first attack of the Battle of Amiens in August 1918.

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The DND and the CAF are working with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and in consultation with the soldiers’ relatives to plan for an internment ceremony to provide the soldiers with a final honoured and appropriate resting place.