Death and Mutilation - Page 8

These images are shown in the deepest respect of those depicted.

French soldiers slain at Rancourt (Somme) in September 1916.

Rancourt dead

The site of the village of Fleury, which changed hands 16 times during the fighting at Verdun in 1916.

Fleury

A trench occupied by a French unit.

Trench from the air

The body of a French soldier killed at Verdun.

Killed at Verdun

Showing the effect of artillery bombardments on the once wooded heights north of Verdun.

Ravines of Verdun

The half-buried, decaying bodies of French soldiers at Verdun.

Killed at Verdun

French soldier in the remains of a trench, huddling among piles of German dead.

Verdun trench

Showing the effect of artillery bombardments.

Sea of shell-holes

A haunting image showing a trench cutting its way across the devastated ground. Verdun.

Gloom

Showing the effect of artillery bombardments on the once wooded heights north of Verdun.

Ravines of Verdun

French soldier sits among the remains of German soldiers piled up in the Death Ravine at Verdun.

The Death Ravine

Photo showing the proximity of the two opposing lines in one sector that was once wooded.

Opposing lines

St Martin's at Ypres

Albert Basilica

Shelled woods