The first of 250 British and Australian soldiers whose remains were recovered from a World War I battlefield in northern France has been reburied. The unidentified soldiers, who died in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles, were reburied with full military honours in a special service near the site of the first Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery built in 50 years. The bodies, which were buried by German forces, were excavated from six mass graves in 2008.<br/><br/>The remaining military burials will take place three times a week over the next month, with approximately 30 burials every day. UK Veterans Minister Kevan Jones and his Australian counterpart Veteran Affairs Minister Alan Griffin attended the one-hour service in the village of Fromelles with families of fallen soldiers. In the battle, the 61st British Division suffered losses of 1,547 personnel, who were either killed, wounded, taken prisoner or missing. The 5th Australian Division suffered 5,533 similar losses.