Verdun I

We set off to visit the battlefields around Verdun when who should appear before us but Billy Connolly! (Well, I thought so, although my thoughts are often ignored. Like the signature in the visitors book at Morton - signed Johnny Depp! - or the .........

The Ossuary, at Fleury. The bones of over 230,000 unidentified French and German soldiers are kept here.

In the main hall above the Ossuary.

Outside, the graves of some of the known soldiers who died.