Troops discovered in makeshift graves beneath mud of Flanders fields in Ypres have been relocated to a cemetery

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Six British first world war soldiers have been reburied more than 100 years after dying in battle on Flanders fields.

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The bodies were discovered in 2013 in Ypres, Belgium, and then embarked on a long journey of identification, some of it based on DNA provided by relatives. Only two of the six were identified. They were reburied on Wednesday.

The unidentified bodies will rest in the same Ypres extension cemetery next to their comrades but in graves marked only as “A Soldier of the Great War”.

The men had originally been buried and marked with a wooden cross but the graves disappeared in subsequent fighting.

Thousands of missing soldiers remain buried deep in mud on the battlegrounds of western Belgium.