Bolton Wanderers player killed in World War One buried
A young Bolton soldier who once played for Bolton Wanderers Football Club has finally been laid to rest almost 110 years after his death.
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A young Bolton soldier who once played for Bolton Wanderers Football Club has finally been laid to rest almost 110 years after his death.
Private David Gemmell, who served with the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), was buried with full military honours in France with members of his family in attendance.
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Irish Royal Navy pilot was thought to be lost forever until he was reunited with family and given a hero's funeral. When Irish fighter pilot Edmund Seymour Burke's plane went down near Norway during the Second World War, his family had no idea what happened to him.