Stage 4 Photo Gallery: Verdun Memorial, and less serious matters
The pursuit of the Yellow is the hot topic of the month, but today's stage rolled past reminders of bigger matters and sadder times. On the approach to Verdun, there were numerous memorials and thousands of crosses in honor of the hundreds of thousands soldiers who died in this region of northern France in World War 1. The first photo on this page is of a memorial along today's route, and contains the remains of 150,000 unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Verdun in WWI.
By Casey B. Gibson
Ossuaire Memorial for the unknown soldiers
Photo: Casey B. Gibson
The pursuit of the Yellow is the hot topic of the month, but today’s stage rolled past reminders of bigger matters and sadder times. On the approach to Verdun, there were numerous memorials and thousands of crosses in honor of the hundreds of thousands soldiers who died in this region of northern France in World War 1.
Nardello after a spill
Photo: Casey B. Gibson
The first photo on this page is of a memorial along today’s route, and contains the remains of 150,000 unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Verdun in WWI.
