Verkkocaroline laforest, of the royal belgian institute of natural sciences, said the skeletal remains were likely those of a young cavalry soldier who died after. Verkkoafter the first world war, on the sunday closest to november 11, the citizens of the town of waterloo remembered their 14 fallen soldiers in various church services. Verkkothis september, military veterans will join an archaeological excavation in belgium as they search for answers to one of history’s enduring mysteries: