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The Bayonet Trench marks the final resting place of No. 3 Company, 1st Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment of the French Army at Verdun.
In January 1919, a French Army team from the 137th Infantry Regiment, searching a particular part of the part of the battlefield at Verdun for the remains of their comrades who had fallen during the desperate fighting there almost three years earlier, made a startling discovery. L'Abbé Ratier, the regimental chaplain, who had served as a stretcher-bearer during the bloodiest combat, stumbled upon an object protruding from the ground. Looking closer, he saw it was a French bayonet. He noticed another one a few feet away, then another. He counted dozens of bayonets over a distance of 30 yards. Removing the dirt from around one of them, the team found it was fixed to the barrel of a rifle. Digging beneath it, they discovered the decomposed body of a French soldier. Excavating further beneath the other bayonets, they found similar remains. The bombardment of June 12th, 1916 by German artillery had landed on either side of the trench and collapsed the earth in on the men below. The French nation was captivated by this a symbol of all who had stood their ground even against the fiercest odds and a monument was created over the trench where the men still are to this day.
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