Colleagues of an East Yorkshire soldier shot in Afghanistan tried to save his life by carrying him to safety while under gunfire, an inquest has heard.
It just so happens that as the dead soldier from WWI is being exhumed at Messines, some miles east - on the battlefield of Waterloo - another British soldier's body has been discovered by different Belgian archaeologists.
Drummer Lee Rigby, the soldier killed by two assailants in south-east London on Wednesday, had wanted to be in the Army since he was a little boy, his family has said.