![]() Human remains of many thousands of soldiers who have never been recovered and the ground should be It should also be remembered that the Western Front battlefields still contain the Having said this, visitors are strongly advised that picking items up from a battlefieldĪrea can be extremely dangerous. There are, however, many remote and less frequently visited battlefield sites which probably still have many Have been well-visited and any battlefield “finds” like buttons or badges are rarely found there any more. With the increased number of visitors to particular parts of the Western Front the edges of many fields and tracks Many private and official museum collections have artefacts like these on show. Such as water bottles, a razor and eating utensils, have been found in fields many decades after the fighting ceased. Metal items which have been preserved in the soil, such as buttons, badges, equipment ![]() These sort of remains are likely to have been lost in the ground and occasionally are found when soil isĭisturbed by digging or ploughing. Years of the end of the war roads and buildings had already been rebuilt and the city had begun to rise againĪ British Lee Enfield rifle found at the edge of a ploughed field on the Somme battlefield in 1979. The whole of the ruined city of Ypres as a permanent British memorial to the Great War was not agreed to. The hazardous job of clearing abandoned weapons, battlefield debris, ammunition, filling inĬraters, tunnels, and, in many cases, exhuming soldiers' remains had to be carried out.Īt official levels there were discussions as to whether some places should be left completely untouched. The huge task of making a new start, rebuilding homes, businesses, farms, churches, public buildings, roads, bridges, Local people who had been forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods were faced with Roads, woods, farms and villages were often The landscape in the fighting lines had been smashed to pieces. Who were returning to their shattered communities. (1)Īfter 1918 the immense task of “clearing up” was carried out by the military and the civilians Trees smashed to stumps in the cratered landscape.
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