THIS is the Burnley soldier killed 92 years ago in a bloody First World War battle whose remains may have finally been found in Belgium.

Private Walter Robinson, 30, who lived in Stanley Street, died along with four other Lancashire Fusiliers three months after the start of the war in a field near Ploegsteert Wood, Ypres, Belgium.

Last week it was revealed the remains of two of those soldiers had been found at the scene of a battle by two amateur archaeologists.

One of the sets of remains was identified as Private Richard Lancaster, who has links with Clayton-le-Moors, Burnley and Nelson.

Experts are now carrying out tests to see if the other set of remains was Pte Robinson, or one of the other two soldiers who has never been found.

The Ministry of Defence and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission are jointly conducting the investigation.

The 1901 census reveals that Pte Robinson lived in Stanley Street with his father John, a furniture broker, mother Dinah, a cotton worker, older brother John and younger brother Harry who were both cotton workers.

Lancashire Fusiliers Museum custodian Tony Sprason said: "We don't know if the skeleton found was Pte Robinson, we're only assuming it might be because it was found in the same area.

"If it is skeletons from that group then there is a one in three chance it is him.

"It makes sense that all five would have been buried together.

"Usually they put them in a crater and filled in the earth and then marked the spot but most of the records from the First World War were destroyed in the Second World War.

Mr Sprason told of the bloody battle that took Pte Robinson's life.

He said: "The Worcestershire Regiment came under heavy infantry and artillery attack and their lines were breached.

"The Argyle and Southern Highlanders were ordered to take part in a night counter attack with support from the Lancashire Fusiliers.

"The Argyles missed one of the enemy trenches and the Lancashire Fusiliers came up behind and took it along with a farm, killing all the German occupants.

"Because they pushed so far forward from the British lines they were forced to withdraw when they came across enemy fire."

During the assault the Worcestershire Regiment lost 126 men and the Lancashire Fusiliers, five Pte Lancaster; Pte Robinson, Pte Will Sheridan, from Wigan, Pte Samuel Brown, of Manchester and Pte Harry Wilkinson, from Bury.

Last week the granddaughter of a Pte Lancaster told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph that she was stunned by the "phenomenal" discovery.

Doreen Grimshaw, 70, of Sherfin, near Rising Bridge, said she had given up hope that he would ever be found.

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