WORLD
WAR I in FRANCE
The
following links take you to the post about the sites along The Western Front of
World War I.
On the occasion of the centenary of World War I in
2018, I traveled The Western Front from Belgium to the Swiss Border and
remembered the Armistice of 11 November 1918 at the Cenotaph in London, England.
Pozières The Windmill honouring Australian troops in Northern France
Pozières Tank Corp memorial near the first use of tanks
Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park honouring British troops from
Newfoundland
Thiepval Memorial, Visitor Centre, and Museum The memorial honours British
and South African troops
Compiegne —the site of the 1918 Armistice
Meaux Museum —an extensive battlefield museum
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre —British war memorial including monuments to the
Royal Engineers
Belleau Wood and the American Monument – remembering U.S. Marines who fought here
atop a hill by the Marne River
Les Fantômes Memorial Sculpture by Paul Landowski— creative sculpture
Les Fantômes Memorial Sculpture by Paul Landowski— creative sculpture
located at the Second Battle of the Marne 1918
Soisson The British Memorial honouring about 4,000 British Commonwealth troops,
Soisson The British Memorial honouring about 4,000 British Commonwealth troops,
who died in the Battles of the Aisne and Marne.
Aisne —Cerny en Loannois — picturesque village with a chapel and cemetery
Aisne —Cerny en Loannois — picturesque village with a chapel and cemetery
in the area known as Chemin des Dames
Aisne and the Monument to the Crapouillots French artillerymen
Aisne and the Monument to the Crapouillots French artillerymen
honoured in a monument shaped like a mortar shell
Tank Corp Memorial This memorial includes several large scale tanks.
Le Main de Massiges and the impressive reconstructed trenches
Hill of Vauquois and the devastation of mine warfare. A village is obliterated.
Romagne a small town with an interesting museum on the way to the
American cemetery of the Meuse-Argonne battle
Meuse-Argonne —an impressive American Memorial near Verdun
Voie Sacrée Memorial on the way to Verdun the sacred supply route
The Battle of Verdun —Verdun and the nearby Museum
Trench of Bayonets memorial and the Battle of Verdun
Douamont Ossuary and Cemetery and the Battle of Verdun
Romanian (aka Rumanian) Military Cemetery at Soultzmatt France
Le Ligne Museum and Trenches located in the beauty of the mountains.
Ilfurth—a German Cemetery
Vieil Armand Battlefield also known as Hartmannswillerkopf—National Monument
Pfetterhouse at the Swiss Border
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Tank Corp Memorial This memorial includes several large scale tanks.
Le Main de Massiges and the impressive reconstructed trenches
Hill of Vauquois and the devastation of mine warfare. A village is obliterated.
Romagne a small town with an interesting museum on the way to the
American cemetery of the Meuse-Argonne battle
Meuse-Argonne —an impressive American Memorial near Verdun
Voie Sacrée Memorial on the way to Verdun the sacred supply route
The Battle of Verdun —Verdun and the nearby Museum
Trench of Bayonets memorial and the Battle of Verdun
Douamont Ossuary and Cemetery and the Battle of Verdun
Romanian (aka Rumanian) Military Cemetery at Soultzmatt France
Le Ligne Museum and Trenches located in the beauty of the mountains.
Ilfurth—a German Cemetery
Vieil Armand Battlefield also known as Hartmannswillerkopf—National Monument
Pfetterhouse at the Swiss Border
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