war memorial

LefT A temporary memorial to some of the soldiers of the 111th Baden Reserve Infantry Regiment set up during search excavations at the Winterberg Tunnel in April 2021.

German mass grave found in WWI tunnel to be consecrated as a war memorial

On 4 May 1917, the entrance to the tunnel on the Chemin des Dames collapsed following French shelling.

BELOW The White Monument in Syria. It was previously thought to be a mass grave, rather than an organised memorial.

‘World’s oldest war memorial’ identified in Syria

Archaeologists have stated that a monument at the Banat-Bazi complex is over 4,000 years old.