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Remains of 17 French WWI soldiers buried at Gallipoli

Canakkale, Turkey | The remains of 17 missing French soldiers who fought in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli were on Sunday handed over to French military officials and put to rest alongside other fallen comrades more than a century after their deaths.

The remains were found during restoration work on a castle and surrounding areas on Turkey’s north-western Canakkale Peninsula.

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