Trenches

From our WWI battlefield tour in September.  Three sets of photos of the trenches in which so many soldiers spent months.

The first is at Ypres and are a small section of actual trenches preserved since the war.

The second is a reconstructed section of trench (which includes some materials used during the war) at the WW1 in Ypres.

The third from our visit to the Butte de Vauquois.

Preserved trenches at Ypres

 

Reconstructed trenches at Ypres

 

(The ceiling ribs are from actual trenches.  You can see damage from shell fragments.)

Preserved trenches at Butte de Vauquois