Student discovers a skeleton of a soldier

An Archaeology student has discovered the body of an Australian soldier who died during the first world war. His body has been recovered after a period of 90 years. A student of Bradford university aged 21 years by name Graham Arkley dressed in full kit discovered a skeleton as he was excavating the German trenches near St Yves in Wallonia.

The area was attacked during the first world war on the morning of June 7 1917 by the third division of Australia as a part of the Battle of Messines.

The student who is persuing a degree of B.Sc. Archaeology found the body while he was working with a project set to examine the effectiveness of the training of the 3rd division of Australia during the First world war.
Mr. Arkley was very proud of his recovery of the previously  missing soldier. The soldier would have met unimaginable hardship and has finally met a violent end.

The other items which were found were the German pickelhaube- a spiked helmet worn by the German soldiers. The remains of the soldier have been taken by the Belgian army and it would be given to the common wealth War graves commission, where they would try to identify the body.