Verdun - Fort Douaumont

After a brief stop, we headed for Fort Douaumont, the memorial to the unknown soldiers. This was, as you can imagine a very sombre place.

The caskets contained bones of French soldiers who fell during the battle. obviously these could not be identified, but names appeared on plaques all over the inside of the monuments.

The Valley looks across the scene of battle as it is now, with row upon row of memorials in the foreground. On our ride through the valley, we saw wooded areas with trees planted since the war on ground that is still heavily bomb cratered.