FROMELLES, France (AP)– The remains of a World War I soldier left in a mass grave for more than 90 years were moved by four-horse cart to a new cemetery for reburial with full honors Monday in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles.

The unknown soldier's new headstone in northern France bears a simple inscription: ""A soldier of the Great War. Known unto God."" His nationality is unclear, but he was either Australian or British.
German machine guns and artillery left more than 5,500 Australians and more than 1,500 British killed, wounded or missing in under 24 hours at the 1916 Battle of Fromelles, the first Australian combat operation on the Western Front.
Many of the dead were buried by Germans in a mass grave, which was covered by plants over time and discovered by an Australian amateur historian in 2008.
After more than two years of exhumation and identification work by archaeologists, 249 of the bodies were reburied under marble gravestones laid out in a V shape in a new cemetery in the French town of Fromelles.
The wooden coffin was driven from the former near the site of the mass grave — now nestled between a potato field and a leafy woods — to the cemetery in a WWI-era horsecart.
Relatives read out letters and diary entries from the soldiers, as well as letters from commanding officers commending the men's bravery. The ceremony was attended by Prince Charles, who was wearing a gray suit adorned with military decorations, as well as his wife Camilla and top Australian officials. The event came on the 94th anniversary of the battle.
""In laying this last hero to rest we honor them all,"" Charles said in a speech. ""Somehow, he and his friends mustered the incredible courage to climb over the parapets"" and into the battle, he said. ""We will never know the impact that apocalyptic scene had upon him.""
Photos of the dead were shown on a large screen at the ceremony, along with photos of objects found on in the mass grave, like a torn and crumpled return ticket to Perth, which an unknown soldier had stashed in the waterproof section of his gas mask. Archaeologists excavated some 6,000 objects, including a bible, coins and a metal cross, from the communal grave.
Only 96 of the bodies found in the communal grave have been identified by name, and all are Australians.
Another 109 bodies were confirmed to have belonged to the Australian army, but not named. Three were confirmed to be British. The other 42 are classified as unknown, the organizers said.
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Australia Governor General Quentin Bryce, right, and Britain's Prince Charles, second right, follow the coffin of an unknown Australian soldier during a ceremony at the British Australian cemetery of Fromelles, northern France, Monday July 19, 2010.