Students to get bursaries to identify WW1 casualties

Nobody knows exactly how many Irish died on Flanders Fields in the first world war because many got caught up in the British propaganda war after the Easter Rising.

Of the 49,000 names listed alphabetically, enshrined on Harry Clarke decorated pages in eight volumes in the Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, less than a quarter have been identified.

Now, a hundred years after most of them died, the government, the Belgian museum and Google have finally come up with a way to find the rest.