3376 x 5128 px | 28,6 x 43,4 cm | 11,3 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. Juli 2009
Ort:
Mount Kemmel Cemetery & Ossuary, Belgium
Weitere Informationen:
"The Mount Kemmel Cemetery was created in the 1920’s for 5, 237 unknown French soldiers gradually moved from Saint Charles de Potyze French Military Cemetery. The ossuary above records the names of 57 identified men who were killed on the western slope of Mont Kemmel and whose remains lie in the ossuary. The remaining bodies were not identified." http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk "At 0230 hours on 25 April 1918 over 250 batteries of German guns opened up on Allied artillery positions with a mixture of gas and high explosive. For the next two hours they concentrated solely on destroying the gun emplacements. After a short pause, at 0500 hours the German barrage was switched to the French front line at Mont Kemmel. French soldiers who had survived the horrors of Verdun described it as the worst they had ever encountered. The Ossuary contains the remains of 5 294 soldiers, all but 57 of them unknown. Most of these soldiers fell in that whirlwind attack on 25 April On the left of the obelisk are marked the names of the commanders of the units and on the right the units themselves." http://www.webmatters.net/monuments/ww1_french_kemmel.htm
