- • It is certainly here the last phases of site improvement, three and a half years after the first pickaxe. The war had changed and aviation took a bigger role. It was necessary to protect the soldiers from the enemy from the sky, especially in the rear support. It seems essential that people decided to bury some structures a little more whose we ignore the destination, but whose we know that they control the last two entries of the site.
- • Please note that the development of this fortification, called second trench line, extends over 120 meters in length. There are several sentinel stations that are supposed to warn of danger and to control access to the area.
- • You could certainly find here over 60 future soldiers together. Correspondence of Emile Desglands talks 1915 about his instruction company. (1)
- • " Next Monday the staff of my company, which represents 70 men, will increase to 220 men on a war footing "
- (1) Departmental Archives 41 : 1J452
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Translated by Nathalie GAUTHIER
This place is very difficult to explain: two fairly large excavations meet together.
We think about a living area where to feed the team during the instruction or about shelters with greater capacity for munitions, as sentry posts are also developed.
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