A whistle, a pocket watch and DNA analysis helped a Canadian Forces team identify the remains of a soldier over 100 years after his death.
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Sarah Lockyer, the casualty identification coordinator for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, said the list of who the remains might belong to was long.Article contentA whistle found with the remains suggested the person ranked higher than a private, Lockyer said, but there were no details on what specific unit the person was with.
Estimates of the remains’ age and height were used to whittle down the list a little more until a few dozen names were left of the most likely candidates.
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