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Pictured: Armoured car pictured after the attack - They were both killed when their armoured car was taken out by a German 88mm shell in the town of Esquelbecq<br />
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The final resting place of a lost hero of Dunkirk has finally been found more than 80 years later.<br />
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Major Piers Edgcumbe, the son of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, has been missing ever since he and a colleague were killed during the German Blitzkrieg in May 1940.<br />
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As 400,000 Allied soldiers retreated towards the beaches of Dunkirk, the aristocratic officer and Lance Corporal Leonard Webber formed part of a forward reconnaissance unit.

BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833.
Pic: AndrewNewsome/BNPS

Pictured: Armoured car pictured after the attack - They were both killed when their armoured car was taken out by a German 88mm shell in the town of Esquelbecq

The final resting place of a lost hero of Dunkirk has finally been found more than 80 years later.

Major Piers Edgcumbe, the son of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, has been missing ever since he and a colleague were killed during the German Blitzkrieg in May 1940.

As 400,000 Allied soldiers retreated towards the beaches of Dunkirk, the aristocratic officer and Lance Corporal Leonard Webber formed part of a forward reconnaissance unit.