Guest KevinEndon Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KevinEndon Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Australian memorial with Thiepval in the back ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Found in the plough soil off the sunken road, what is it & when ??? 2inches high approx I think this is a morphine ampoule. This should be handled with extreme care. I personally would not touch it without gloves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjohnson1@blueyonder Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 I think this is a morphine ampoule. This should be handled with extreme care. I personally would not touch it without gloves. Touch It!!!!! Some of the pictures on here I think they drank it!!!!!!!! Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Where the break in occured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Along the forest line to the Hospital battery.The French arty gave it their all from this spot to cover Souville, the spot that saved Verdun.Sorry bout finger Left is an emplacement,there are several visible.Right is the tunnel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 One of the ammo dumps for the battery,next to the dugouts Trench guarding the arty spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Fort Souville its self. This goes a long way underground.Links to all sorts of entrances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 This should explain the importance of this now 'forest' fort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Entrance to ammo store room Even though these are all open,you do not want to go in there.Very dangerous places even to a caver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 This chateau d'eau has been photographed many times but,its not until your standing beside it that you find it so surprising its still standing sfter all these years! Its taken hits by several different sized shells & shows signs of small arms fire too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 The prongs look short but,this is German wire on the line the closest to Verdun that they got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Monument to Maginot himself(he of line fame)who was wounded here very early in the war. After that is the Verdun memorial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 Theses are for Barrie so you can make a comparison between Lorette & the national cemetary of Verdun. This place takes up a lot more room than NDdL but,there are 8000 less graves here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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59165 Posted 10 April , 2007 Share Posted 10 April , 2007 & inside the bunker shaped memorial. You remember the osuaries at Lorette?Under the floor here are the bones of 130,000 unknown French troops.They can be seen from the small windows outside but,Im not posting photos of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShirlD Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 Aussiechris,' it would be a long day but its no problem to do it. Have undertaken the trip many times myself. Ideally you would need your own car to make the most of your time. If you need a suggested route let me know. 59165, Yes please, a simple day trip thanks Shirley 59165 Brilliant photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 Tafski.Your Dvd is ready for You. cheers fella look forward to watching it tafski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrieduncan Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 Excellent pics Dave - thanks for posting them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 Superb photographs, Dave much to thank Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 Last Verdun photos,hope they have been a help to those that cant get there. This is the last fort I visited,Froide Terre or Cold Earth & that just about sums it up. This place never fell & helped to support Souville in its struggle. While admiring the defenders as I do,you really have to admire the attackers for their tenacity & courage in probably the biggest hot spot of the war where princes & generals fought each other over a town that,if it had fallen,would have probably lost the war for the allies.Lots of debate there I suppose! Bienvenue à Cold Earth.A very cold spot indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 madame in doors car.It has never done a harder run than this few days work.See how shelled to hell the place is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 11 April , 2007 Share Posted 11 April , 2007 Dave, great photos, thanks for sharing them, Verdun is very near the top of my 'places to see' list, regards, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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