ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 34 [Main]

A procession of Chasseurs, led by priests and choirboys, makes a pilgrimage to a cemetery near the battle zone, where, as the civilian congregation watches, a monument is dedicated "To Our Dead".The soldiers wait and rest in their trenches and shellholes, passing round food and cooking on improvised fires. Some help manhandle a horse-drawn field kitchen out of the mud. Others build a corduroy road…