Mitre Shaftesbury Pub 23 High Street
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Battle of Verdun
Douamont Ossuary - Military cemetery contains the graves of 15,000 identified french soldiers.
Monday, 2 August 2010
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Battle of Verdun
Douamont Ossuary - On the 137m-long facade, the shields of each town or city having helped built the ossuary can be seen. Its 46m-high tower overlooks the entire battlefield. The cloister consists of 22 cavities each containing 46 granite graves. Each grave represents a sector of the battlefield and contains the reains found in this sector.
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