Tuesday 26 May Verdun

Today was spent driving around, doing 50 miles looking at WW1 battle fields @ memorials. First up we looked inside the Citadelle Souterraine. Then we looked at a totally destroyed village of Fleury where nothing remains except the bomb craters. A large area around Verdun was left as it remained after the battles were over, as a reminder of the war. Later we looked at the French Memorial that has thousands of names of unknown solders on its wall and their remains buried underneath that can be seen through glass walls. In the cemetery are the graves of 15,000 soldiers. This battle between the Germans and French had the largest loss of live then any other battle in history, around 400,000 on both sides.





At 1730 it started to rain so we headed to camp via some shopping. A good evening meal was had at our camp before we retired for the evening.