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considered the "road to Hell". Thousands and thousands of men passed along the Voie Sacrée each day and 2,000 tons of munitions. To ensure the road was kept clear all men on foot were obliged to march through the surrounding fields and to maintain the road surface a unit of soldiers, equal to a full division of men, threw down some 700,000 tonnes of stones during the 10 months of the battle. A narrow gauge railway ran alongside the road. The Voie Sacree is now marked along its length with posts capped with a model of a French soldier’s helmet. The posts tell the reader how far he is along the road from Bar-Le-Duc to Verdun.
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buried them alive. The story was that Father Ratier, an army chaplain, who had been a stretcher bearer with the 137th in 1916, found a line of some thirty nine bayonets protruding from the ground: each one marking the location of a body and here the legend started and the spot is marked by a memorial known as the "Trench of
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these two attacks were successful. However, on 29 June the
Germans took the hill, and less than two months later, the French re-captured it. On the right-hand side of the memorial to the 40th are listed the divisions that fought here in 1916 and on the left are those divisions who fought in 1917, when further fighting took place.
500:"ce monument oeuvre de Forest, Architecte, et de Grange, Sculpteur, Symbolise la célèbre devise de Verdun 1916 on ne passe pas cinq soldats de différentes armes au coude à coude, forment un mur contre lequel est venu se briser l'assaut de l'ennemi. Ce monument a été erigé à la mémoire des Enfants de Verdun morts pour la France"
172:, which is sounded at official ceremonies. It was offered by an American benefactor, Anne Thornburn Van Buren, in 1927. At the top of the tower a rotating red and white "lantern of the dead" shines on the battlefields at night. The cloister is 137 metres (449 ft) long and contains 42 interior alcoves.
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Inaugurated on 1 November 1928, the monument depicts a line of five soldiers representing the different arms of the armed forces. From left to right, there is a cavalryman with his sabre, in the centre is a young, determined infantryman, followed by an old colonial soldier with his distinct moustache
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This monument is located at the summit of a stairway which links lower Verdun (rue Mazel) and upper Verdun (place de la Libération) and its pyramidal tower (30 m high) holds a crypt which was used to hold books with the names of those French and
American soldiers who fought in this region (the books
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is a memorial containing the remains of both French and German soldiers who died on the Verdun battlefield. Through small outside windows, the skeletal remains of at least 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both nations can be seen filling up alcoves at the lower edge of the building. On the inside of
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During the war, the town was destroyed and the land was made uninhabitable to such an extent that a decision was made not to rebuild it. The area around the municipality was contaminated by corpses, explosives, and poisonous gas, so farming was impossible. The site of the commune is maintained as a
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Douaumont ossuary is the memorial which remembers the lost village of Fleury-Devant-Douaumont, one of the many villages destroyed in the fighting but never rebuilt. The village had become a key position in the battle and changed hands 16 times and by July 1916 had been razed to the ground.
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It was the
American Miss Horace Gray de Boston, who asked Henri Frémont for permission to translate and sell the book in the USA, and funds raised were used to rebuild the village. There is a monument entitled "Le père Barnabé" which was erected in 1930 in front of the ancient village church. This
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In the
Douaumont area is the memorial to the men of the 130th Division (of what nation?)who fought as part of the Souville Garrison. Its position at the site of the former ruins of the Chapel of Sainte-Fine marks the furthest that the Germans managed to advance towards Verdun in their attack of 12
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The construction of the ossuary was organized by a committee led by the Bishop of Verdun, who collected subscriptions within France and internationally. Around the exterior of the building are displayed the coats of arms of all the cities that donated money towards its construction. In the gallery
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Both monuments stand on Cote 304, a strategically significant piece of high ground contested during the battle. The memorials are dedicated to the more than 10,000 French
Soldiers who perished there. The hill was first attacked by the Germans on 20 March 1916 and again on 9 April 1916. Neither of
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Monument at Mort Homme was the work of the sculptor Jacques Froment-Meurice, and was erected by the veterans of the 69th French Infantry Division. The skeleton of a French soldier is draped over the flag for which he has sacrificed his life. He carries the flame of victory and the monument is
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It was along this road that French men and supplies were fed to the fighting area. At one point it was calculated that vehicles were passing every fourteen seconds, day and night, to ensure that Verdun could withstand the massive onslaught that it was subjected to in 1916. It was for good reason
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It was inaugurated on 14 May 1967 by
General Boucaud, the president of the "Fédération du Train (FNT)" and has sculptural work by François Barrois of Commercy. It was designed by the architect Gaston Schmitt of Toul. The monument stands on the point where soldiers would arrive in trucks and then
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When the battlefield clearance parties began to search the Verdun area after the war, one party found what appeared to be a mass grave of men from one unit, the 137th
Infantry Regiment. It was thought that they were killed in their "jumping off" trench when the intense German shelling literally
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This monument stands between the Douaumont ossuary and the monument dedicated to the Jews who died at Verdun and is dedicated to the memory of those Jews who laid down their lives in the 1914-1918 war. The wall is 25 metres long and 15 metres high and is inscribed with the text of Hebrew Laws,
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The crypt was quite unique and the restorers tried to change it as little as possible but one innovation was the commissioning in 1935 of the sculptor Gaston Le Bourgeois to carve the corbels of the crypt's pillars. This involved 13 corbels each having 4 sides, giving Le Bourgeois the task of
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are now kept in the city hall). The crypt had been intended to hold the mortal remains of the 7 unknown soldiers who were not chosen during the 1920 ceremony to select the remains for the tomb of the unknown soldier in Paris but these remains are now in the Faubourg-Pavé military cemetery.
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would walk the 8 kilometres to the front line. Barrois' relief depicts the various kinds of trucks used on the Voie Sacrée, the railway with a depiction of the Corpet-Louvet locomotive, and the men working on maintenance. In the centre of the relief the words inscribed read
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and the inauguration took place several years later on 23 June 1929, the ceremony being witnessed by Gaston Doumergue, the French President, Raymon Poincaré, the Prime Minister, several ministers and Pétain. Boucher's statue at the top of the monument depicts
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was a village some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the north of Verdun which was totally destroyed in the war and the character was the creation of the writer Henry Frémont. "Le Père Barnabé" came to symbolise the people of the Meuse in 1914-1918.
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It was damaged by a bomb in 1916 and after the war much restoration was needed and the restorers André Ventre and Marcel Delangle were commissioned to supervise this restoration. Jean-Jacques Grüber was commissioned to work on the stained glass.
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Now the monument bears not only the names of the 518 casualties of World War I, but both military and civilian victims of the Second World War, including deportees and resistance fighters and those who lost their lives in Algeria and overseas.
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This monument in Verdun was created by the French architect LĂ©on Chesnay. The sculptor was Jean Boucher (1870-1939), who was himself a veteran of Verdun battle. The foundation stone of the monument was laid down in 1920 by War Minister
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designed the stained-glass windows. The tower is 46 metres (151 ft) high and has a panoramic view of the battlefields. The tower contains a bronze death-bell, weighing over 2 tonnes (2.0 long tons; 2.2 short tons), called
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This striking memorial is completely white in colour and is dedicated to the 70,000 Muslim soldiers who died whilst fighting for France at Verdun. It was inaugurated on 25 June 2006, the ceremony being led by Jacques Chirac,
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The inauguration ceremony took place on 10 September 1922, in the presence of Generals Nivelle and Berthelot, Boichut, the Governor of Verdun and Mon. Taufflieb, the senator for the Bas-Rhin, who had commanded the 69th.
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This monument is dedicated to the 518 men of Verdun who gave their lives in the 1914-1918 war. 510 were soldiers and 8 civilians. The architect was Forest and the sculptor and the monument took as its theme the words
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Inside the cloister are 18 shelters, each holding two granite tombs, with each of these tombs representing an exact section of the battlefield. Underneath, burial vaults hold the bones of the unidentified dead.
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and a Government Minister before the war and when war broke out he enlisted as an ordinary soldier and fought at Verdun, sustaining a bad knee injury. After the war Maginot returned to politics and as
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the ossuary, the ceiling and walls are partly covered by plaques bearing names of French soldiers who fell during the Battle of Verdun, as well as the names of those who died fighting during
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It was never rebuilt and the memorial stands as a reminder of the horrors that the village must have witnessed. Several other villages suffered the fate of Fleury-devant-Douaumont, namely
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In front of the monument, and sloping downhill, lies the largest single French military cemetery of the First World War, with 16,142 graves. It was initiated in 1923 by Verdun veteran
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completing 52 corbels. He chose two subjects for these carvings; episodes from the Battle of Verdun and the religious life of the town.
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shows a Meuse peasant standing before the ruins of his village and this monument was funded by both Henri Frémont and Miss Gray.
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the ring of fortresses on the eastern border with Germany built in the 1930s to defend France against future German attack.
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient
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Monument at Mort Homme and the Monument to the 40th French Infantry
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes
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A sign next to the monument gives the following information
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme
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Memorial to 137th Regiment of Infantry/The Bayonet Trench
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ww1photographs.wordpress.com. Retrieved 12 February 2013
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders
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List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Lorraine
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Memorial de Verdun Website. Retrieved 12 February 2013
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Artois
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The wall of the Israelites at Fleury-devant-Douaumont
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statues.vanderkrogt.net. Retrieved 12 February 2013
1437:51st (Highland) Division Monument (Beaumont-Hamel)
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1219:V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
1082:Petit Patrimoine. Retrieved 12 February 2013
987:Petit Patrimoine. Retrieved 12 February 2013
932:Petit Patrimoine. Retrieved 11 February 2013
719:Names on the walls of the ossuary's interior
247:The monument carries at its front the words
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896:Verdun-Douaumont. Retrieved 4 February 2013
380:The memorial to the men who maintained the
1382:Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial
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1032:Memorial to the men of the 130th Division
908:Verdun website. Retrieved 4 February 2013
875:Ministry of Defence The Douaumont ossuary
61:Learn how and when to remove this message
1648:Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles
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920:Verdun-Meuse. Retrieved 12 February 2013
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611:The "Trench of Bayonets" at Verdun.
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769:"The Price of Glory" Verdun 1916
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404:Road marker Verdun-Bar-le-Duc
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1558:Alfred-Alphonse Bottiau
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997:Site sur la voie sacrée
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1472:Mametz Wood Memorial
1250:Courcelette Memorial
892:7 April 2013 at the
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233:Michèle Alliot-Marie
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1643:George Henry Paulin
1397:Montfaucon Monument
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1140:Monuments aux Morts
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1603:Charles Desvergnes
1563:Edgar-Henri Boutry
1553:Reginald Blomfield
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1293:L'Ă‚me de la France
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