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Keystone View Company Internment of the Fallen Brave in the Cemetary at Villers au Bois, France

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.127 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: Villers au Bois, France Type: Stereocard Date: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

In this photograph are men gathered, including a priest, around a grave with dead men. Fallen men more often than not were put into mass graves. The region of Villers-au-Bois saw a lot of fighting during the war.

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