Battle of the Somme
Shortly after climbing the hill south of Vimy Ridge we came across our first Battle of the Somme cemetery with 6000 German soldiers graves. They were well tended but did not have the flowers the are gown in front of the Commonwealth war graves. German Jewish solder's graves were tablet shaped rather than crosses.
The commonwealth cemeteries identified each soldier by regiment or country. Canadian soldiers were identified by a maple leaf and the Nefoundland soldiers by a caribou.
This mixed cemetery had commonwealth soldiers on the left and German soldiers on the right (not shown).
The black line on the map shows the almost stationary front from 1915 to 1917 in which hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed in futile charges of the enemy trenches.
The commonwealth cemeteries identified each soldier by regiment or country. Canadian soldiers were identified by a maple leaf and the Nefoundland soldiers by a caribou.
This mixed cemetery had commonwealth soldiers on the left and German soldiers on the right (not shown).
The black line on the map shows the almost stationary front from 1915 to 1917 in which hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed in futile charges of the enemy trenches.
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