Thread: Mont-de-Huisnes, Normandy

Photography was difficult here, the chambers you can see actually form a ring around the central monument. Ca. 11,000 dead here, most of them named with birth and death dates.

Not the normal run of the mill War Cemetery this Dave, but still a place of tranquil. It is very unexpecting on your first visit. Thanks for sharing the picture.

IS that one cross to remember them all? Or was the photo taken due to its unusual design (of the cross)

There is one cross in the centre, and thousands of named graves in the chambers circling it.

I suppose you have to visit these sites for yourself and witness firsthand the scale and numbers of the graves to comprehend the actual loss of life.

as stalin said:

"one death is a tragedy, one million, statistics."