Ossuaire de Douaumont / The Douaumont Ossuary (France)
N 49° 12.475 E 005° 25.438
31U E 676548 N 5453397
This poststamp is devoted to the famous Ossuaire de Douaumont (The Douaumont Ossuary), where lie the bones of hundreds of thousands of men, both German and French who fell during the Battle of Verdun and whose names are known only to God...
Waymark Code: WM6J8M
Location: Grand-Est, France
Date Posted: 06/09/2009
Views: 36
Ossuaire de Douaumont is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the infamous WWI Verdun battlefield. Through small windows, the remains of 130 000 unidentified French and German soldiers can actually be seen filling small, windowed alcoves around the edge of the building. Inside, the ceiling and walls are covered by some of the names of soldiers who fell in the battle of Verdun.
Some of the names are from the fighting in the area in WWII. The families of the individual soldiers recognized here paid for their plaques. In front of the monument lies the largest cemetery of France outside Paris with 15,000 graves. The ossuary was officially inaugurated on 7 August 1932 by French President Albert Lebrun.
Stamp Issuing Country: France
Date of Issue: June 03, 2006
Denomination: 0.53 €
Color: polychrome
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
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