7 World War I soldiers given military burial after their remains were discovered during gas pipeline construction

British and Canadian authorities have given seven soldiers killed more than a century ago in World War I a full military burial after their remains were discovered during a gas pipeline construction near Ypres, Belgium.

The soldiers were found in two separate burial sites near the Belgian town at the heart of the Flanders Fields, where in 1914-18 hundreds of thousands perished in a muddy, shell-churned hellscape.

The ceremony took place Thursday at the New Irish Farm Commonwealth War Grave near Ypres.