Lost WW2 soldier finally laid to rest 03.10.12
167A 19 year old British soldier killed in the Second World War was finally laid to rest at a Commonwealth War Cemetery near Arnhem in the Netherlands.
It took years of scientific analysis to identify Private Lewis Curtis whose remains were only found in 2003.
In the autumn of 1944 the Dutch city of Arnhem was where the Allies launched Operation Market Garden -- an airborne offensive that was supposed to take them swiftly across the Rhine and into Nazi Germany.
Instead, a combination of bad weather, supply and reinforcement problems and stiff German resistance led to heavy losses.
One of those killed was nineteen-year old Private Lewis Curtis of 5th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment.
Almost seven decades later he was finally laid to rest at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
His remains missing since the Second World War were discovered at a building site near Arnhem in 2003 although it took many years more to confirm their identity.
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