WWI encampment re-enactment

Hundreds of volunteers from 18 countries gathered in the French town ofve rd unto keep alive the memory of those who fought under appalling conditions in the First World War.

Re-enactors dressed in soldiers’ uniforms and held a military parade at the weekend, to mark the centenary of the end of the war. The 10-month battle at Verdun killed 163,000 French soldiers.

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