Descriptions and history from the comments to this post:
"Astounding footage. Thank you for posting! My great grandfather served in the 27th Canadian battalion. He fought in some terrible battles from 1916-1918 (St Eloi, the Somme, Passchendaele) to name a few. He was injured many times by shrapnel. Suffered life threatening infections. The worst was a gun shot wound in 1918 to his left arm that completely shattered his elbow. He required a silver plate to reconstruct it. I never had the chance to meet him (was born 15 years after he passed). His war experience is similar to that of so many others. Awe inspiring but also terrifying. Bless all those who paid so heavy a price. Dead and survivors alike. War is never the answer."
My granddad was in some semi official capacity in 2013 and visited the commonwealth grave commission (?) headquarters, he was speaking to one of the people there and mentioned our loss, the guy said "What was your home town?" And asked him to wait a moment.
Came back with our family members leather dog tag.
They had been called by a farmer who had found some bones and they found an aid station dugout that had been hit by a shell which buried the whole aid station.
They found twenty wounded and four medic that had been there for all that time.
They were in the process of trying to contact kin and granddad had already been identified as the next of kin.
We had known Fred had been wounded and sent back from the front but he had never reached the rear." Verdun is a Human Slaughterhouse ; This is what a world war 1 battlefield in Verdun France looks like today.
CarterOnConflict has more at this site.
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