Photos from WW1 trenches museum and Verdun Memorial

[Carotio]

Hi,

I thought these photos may be interesting for some of you, CaptainCox in particular, since he was there this summer as well...

Anyway, I have 47 photos to show!

29 photos are from the trenches museum

18 from Verdun Memorial including Fort de Douaumont

I have done the descriptions to the pictures underneath every picture, places above!


The trenches museum

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01121.jpg
Our guide, a 10 year old lad knowing his history very well!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01122.jpg
A look over the trenches
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01124.jpg
The luxurious version: wooden floor. Most of the time it was mud
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01125.jpg
The post office
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01127.jpg
Officer quarter, with heat oven
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01129.jpg
Officer quarter, the bed
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01130.jpg
The phone lines
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01131.jpg
To remove water and mud
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01132.jpg
Machine gun
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01136.jpg
Field hospital
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01137.jpg
Anyone up for an injection?
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Medicine supply dog

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[Carotio]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01141.jpg
Info about war and area
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01142.jpg
Map of the area
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Don't remember
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01144.jpg
Don't remember, laundry maybe
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Officer quarter
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01146.jpg
Officer quarter
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01147.jpg
Kitchen
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01148.jpg
Cafe
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01149.jpg
Soldiers bedroom
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01150.jpg
Soldiers equipment to heat coffee and such
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01151.jpg
Fireplace to get warm
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Don't remember

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[Carotio]

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Stuff dug up from the earth
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Stuff dug up from the earth
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Stuff dug up from the earth
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Stuff dug up from the earth
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Stuff dug up from the earth

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[Carotio]

Verdun Memorial

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01170.jpg
War museum, we didn't have time to enter...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01171.jpg
Battlefield covered with trees
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01172.jpg
The Jewish memorial for Verdun, actually left in peace during 1940-1944 by the Germans
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01173.jpg
The Memorial seen from the road
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01179.jpg
Close up, look through a window, human bones, very morbid to look at...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01183.jpg
One side of the field in front of the Memorial, covered with crosses...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01188.jpg
Inside the tower, french line in english:
This tower has been offered to the great fallen people of Verdun by their friends of USA
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The chapel inside the Memorial
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01191.jpg
The Muslem memorial for Verdun - apparently some Turks may have fought for Germany at Verdun, since they were allies back then. Can any Turkish members confirm that?

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[Carotio]

Fort de Douaumont - situated just next to the Verdun Memorial

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01193.jpg
Poster showing the area of the battlefield of Verdun
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01194.jpg
Poster showing the fortress
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01196.jpg
CaptainCox, you see? My photo is made at the same angle as yours. A little funny that we were the same place this summer...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01200.jpg
Poster at the entrance of the inside of the fortress. Sadly my group hadn't the time to enter here neither...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01201.jpg
Outside the fortress
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01203.jpg
On top of the fortress
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01210.jpg
On top of the fortress
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01230.jpg
Outside the fortress
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01231.jpg
Outside the fortress

That's it! I hope you enjoyed watching these photos! It's a sad part of our history, but important never to forget these events!!!!

[Tchocky]

VERY nice pics, thanks for uploading!

[Camaero]

Awesome! That 10 year old seems like a cool kid!

[Carotio]

Just for fun:

One last one,
me with a rusty old German helmet...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Carotio/DSC01164.jpg

[Letum]

I visited the place with the trees back in 2001 and wrote this poem close to where my Great Grandfather died. I think it goes well with your photo.

I was only 14 at the time, so go easy on the criticism. ;)

http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/marked.jpg

[Carotio]

VERY nice pics, thanks for uploading!
You're welcome! I just hoped some would find it interesting!

Awesome! That 10 year old seems like a cool kid!
Indeed! I was impressed how well he told about these trenches and the stuff we could see, also when I asked him some questions about it...

I visited the place with the trees back in 2001 and wrote this poem close to where my Great Grandfather died. I think it goes well with your photo.
I was only 14 at the time, so go easy on the criticism.
It's okay....
Since my group consisted of a majority of girls, many pretty girls btw, the management had decided not to use too much time on war themes as necessary. So we had a conference about Verdun before going and then one day to see all this, including the bus ride around the area. But I would have liked to stop in the forest as well. Oh, well, I'm still young, I can return another day...

[Officerpuppy]

Do they let the medical dog just wander around the site or does he make special apperances? :up: Great pictures :yep:

[Happy Times]

The Muslem memorial for Verdun - apparently some Turks may have fought for Germany at Verdun, since they were allies back then. Can any Turkish members confirm that?

I think its for the muslims soldiers from french colonies.

[CaptainCox]

MAN! I SO MISSED THAT TRENCH! you show in the first post :(
It was just poring down the whole day when we where there, so we did not see all the stuff.

Some pics from Douaumont, The Museum and one of the many grave yards/memorials in the area of Verdun

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/5161/p1010009copyzy3.jpg

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/5943/p1010012sw0.jpg

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http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/6351/p1010032iq4.jpg

Had a pretty crappy camera that day, so the pics are not 100%+ it was poring :p

[Carotio]

MAN! I SO MISSED THAT TRENCH! you show in the first post :(
It was just poring down the whole day when we where there, so we did not see all the stuff.

Some pics from Douaumont, The Museum and one of the many grave yards/memorials in the area of Verdun

Had a pretty crappy camera that day, so the pics are not 100%+ it was poring :p

The trenches museum is situated a few kilometres away from the Verdun memorial. If you want, I can send a e-mail to one of the teachers or supervisors of the summer school and ask for the exact location, because I don't really remember, where it was...

Yeah, we had a lot of rain in North-eastern part of France this summer, in all of Europe I think, but that day, at least while we were at the Fort, we only had very little rain, but some of the day we had lots of it. While inside the Memorial building it was raining "cats and dogs" (is this a British expression only?).

[Carotio]

The Muslem memorial for Verdun - apparently some Turks may have fought for Germany at Verdun, since they were allies back then. Can any Turkish members confirm that?

I think its for the muslims soldiers from french colonies.

Oh, yeah, that makes more sence! You must be right!