Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
Today we remember all those who have fallen in battle since the end of WWI in 1918. The world would be a far different place if not for the sacrifice of the men and women in the armed forces. So at 11:00 please take some time to reflect on what they have done for each and every one of us.
Images by Michael St Maur Shiel and were taken from this post on Mail Online.
Haunting picture of a landscape near Verdun, France still shows the pockmarks and craters made in the Great War almost 100 years ago.
French soldiers at Verdun in 1916
The still pockmarked landscape of Beaumont Hamel on the Somme where the Newfoundland Regiment were decimated by German machine guns
Grave of French soldier Edouard Ivaldi in Champagne. This is the only grave left from WW1 and still has Ivaldi’s helmet marking the spot he fell in 1917.
The Fort de Douaument – a defence near Verdun, France which saw one million casualties in the Great War – from Mike St Maur Sheil’s collection
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