Hauts-de-France
The French military cemetery and monument of Notre-Dame de Lorette, close to Lens, commemorates the thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in one of the heaviest battles during World War I.
Hauts-de-France
The two 30-metre-high pylons of the Canadian War Memorial in Vimy, France, commemorate Canadian soldiers who died during World War I.
Hauts-de-France
After the First World War, the German army left dozens of bunkers behind in the French Illies, a village about 20 kilometers west of Lille.
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