Scenes like these always stop me in my tracks. You hear and read the numbers of people killed in war and you can't picture them. Here you can...the endless sea of crosses. I could say more, but I'll just stop now.

Yeah, one thing that is very marking in the area of the WWI battlefields, it's the number of cemeteries that you can cross on your way, both from WWI with sometimes graves of WWII soldiers, though, you can see the differents organisations from a country to another, German and French Cemeteries are generally big places where are gathered all the soldiers who died in one battle or in the region where it is but the Commonwealth cemeteries are, for their part, many little cemeteries located near of the places where the soldiers died. But you know, one of the most marking cemeteries I've been gaven to see it's the Necropolis of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette which is the biggest French military cemetery as the German cemetery located near of it (but of which I've forgotten its name...), The German one is really big and each crosses carry around 4 names and the French one is even bigger but there's only two names by crosses, but what caught the most my attention were the 8 ossuaries welcolme the remains of over 23 000 unknown soldiers, or a bit more than the half of the cemetery itself, classed by the places where the bodies were found, when you come in front of one and you think that one of your ancestor is probably buried there, among a thousand of other men, you just realise what hell it has been.

*salutes...

V.