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Feb. 18, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

Last part of this series (here's part 1, 2, 3 and 4). Apparently (I didn't see them the first time I visited the graveyards, about ten years ago) there has been…

by bjornroose

Feb. 16, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

Since 2014 there's a new memorial site right in front of the "national necropolis" (see here, here and here): an international memorial. It honours the 580.000…

by bjornroose

Feb. 15, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

More about this site in the first post of this series. In this post more endless lines of graves, like in part two ...

by bjornroose

Feb. 14, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

What this "nécropole nationale" is all about, you can read in the first post in this series. One of the most interesting things about this graveyard is that it…

by bjornroose

Feb. 13, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

This place was one of the major battlefields of World War I in Artois (France). So many people lost there lives here that the hill has been named "la colline…

by bjornroose

Feb. 12, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Church ruin

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire is a municipality in the northern part of France. Nothing much to see in the municipality itself, but on our way to the Nécropole Nationale…

by bjornroose

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Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Church ruin