Le Memorial de Caen - 5
15. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Le Memorial de Caen - 4
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Le Memorial de Caen - 3
15. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
The French Resistance
Le Memorial de Caen - 2
15. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Le Memorial de Caen - 1
15. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Unbelievable war museum. So well done. It will take many posts to share my photos and experience from here. Each place we stop I wish I had more time to explore.
Pegasus Bridge
14. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
The British 6th Airborne Division landed gliders near this bridge in near silence on June 5, 1944. Each glider held 28 soldiers.
Brettville Canadian War Cemetery WWII
14. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
Earnest Casorso from Kelowna is buried in this cemetary as well as the youngest Canadian soldier, Gerard Dore. We have been doing charcoal rubs of many headstones.
Versailles Palace
14. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
Built by King Louis XIV.
RejsendeIt’s spectacular isn’t it?! Looks like you had a beautiful day there! It was POURING rain the day I was there, when I was 15.
Shannan SchimmelmannI love it! Went with a girlfriend in 2002 and I was so impressed the experience has never faded, can’t wait to return one day maybe with my daughters 😊
Ypres, Belgium
12. marts 2018, Belgien ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Every single night at 8pm they do a remembrance ceremony at the Menin Gate to honor the thousands and thousands of fallen soldiers. Thier names cover the monument.
Langemark German Cemetery
11. marts 2018, Belgien ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
German Cemetery in Belgium. Very different in appearance. 50,000+ men buried here.
Hill 62
11. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Actual natural trenches. Very muddy. Inside were so many war artifacts and photo boxes with hundreds and hundreds of photos by soldiers during the war (some of them very graphic and gory).
St. Juliaan
11. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Gas attacks were done here by the Germans. Canadians filled the gaps where French soldiers fled.
Passchendale
11. marts 2018, Belgien ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Essex Farm Cemetery and Hospital
11. marts 2018, Belgien ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Cemetery next to John McRae's hospital (see photo).
Cemetery
11. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Vimy Ridge
10. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
The place where Canadians first fought as a country. They succeeded in taking Vimy Ridge back from the Germans. The memorial contains the names of soldiers without graves. I found my family's name onLæs mere
Thiepval
10. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
HUGE Monument to recognize all the missing soldiers in the battle of the Somme. As more soldiers' bodies are still discovered each year, they scratch off the names on this monument when the soldiersLæs mere
Cemetaries
10. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We visited cemetaries all around the area today where students had family members buried or named on a monument because they couldn't find thier body. Great research and presentations from theLæs mere
Beaumont Hamel Battlefield
10. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
A significant battle took place here on July 1, 1916. The 29th Regiment (from Newfoundland) lost about 85% of thier men this morning. Thier battle was riddled with miscommunication and errors leadingLæs mere
Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims, France
9. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Visited the most amazing Cathedral I have ever seen today.
Fort du Vaux, Vaux-devant-Damlou, France
9. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Visited an underground fort.
Ossuaire Douaumont, France
9. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
130,000 unnamed soldiers lie under this monument. Bones visible through the windows. Crosses mark 14,000 identified soldiers actually buried here. What a humbling experience.
Cemetery - Vis-en-Artois
9. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Stopped here to recognize 2 relatives of a student buried in this cemetery.
Verdun
8. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌙 4 °C
Saint Paul's Hotel in beautiful Verdun, France.
Maginot Line
8. marts 2018, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Great tour of the underground system of tunnels to protect the French border.