Le Petit Donon - memorial stones to French and German dead
Vosges St Die - The fighting in this area took place Aug 15-21 1914. After the battle the Germans buried the dead of both sides where they fell and marked them with crosses which were replaced in 1916 by a German NCO, Ludwig Gebhardt. Today some 41 of these memorials are still on the upper slopes of the hill. French losses are given as 1048 casualties of whom
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10837598
Media ID
47623495
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6144px x 4088px
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Credit
westernfrontphotography.com/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Mike St Maur Sheil
Date
2012
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