The whole article is worth reading, but it all boils down to this
(my bold):
So,
this is where the coincidence and the new relationship between Privates
Parr and Ellison entwine. During the last few months of the war the
Germans were in retreat and Private Ellison’s regiment had recovered
those lost miles and was in therefore almost the exact position where
Private Parr was killed by the German patrol in August 1914. There it
came to pass by a stupendous and uncanny coincidence, that the first and
the last British soldiers killed in combat lie opposite each other
about 15 feet away. About 750000 commonwealth deaths stand inside the
short 15 feet that lies between the bones of the first and last combat
death. The unlikely placement of the graves was not in anyway
deliberate, it was just a case that nearby both bodies were recovered
from where they dropped with four long years distance between them.
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