article_snippet.sent: The team at Waterloo had to use the process of elimination to identify The team at Waterloo unknown soldier and could not rely on DNA tests like those used by the group that discovered Richard III under a car park in Leicester in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: The musket ball that killed the young soldier was found lodged between the young soldier ribs at the Waterloo battlefield .
article_snippet.sent: Killed apparently by a musket ball which was found between the recently identified soldier's rib bones .
article_snippet.sent: The team at Waterloo was ready to give up on the case until Glover, treasurer of the Waterloo Association and author of Waterloo: Myth and Reality, matched troop formations to where the body was found and was able to identify the recently identified soldier as a member of the German Legion.
article_snippet.sent: Using the information he was able to calculate that the recently identified soldier was probably killed between 1pm and 4pm when he unit marched on a ridge at Hougoumont.
article_snippet.sent: Using this vital piece of information Glover found that only two soldiers with the initials had been killed at the battle.
article_snippet.sent: Glover was able to rule one of the pair out after consulting payment records dating back to August 1815.