Mémorial de Verdun

English: Verdun Memorial - the museum of the great battle of the World War I - battle of Verdun in France (1916); the museum is located in Fleury-devant-Douaumont near Verdun

Polski: Muzeum Pamięci Bitwy pod Verdun (Mémorial de Verdun) - muzeum wielkiej bitwy I wojny światowej pod Verdun we Francji w 1916; muzeum znajduje się w miejscowości Fleury-devant-Douaumont koło Verdun

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Verdun Memorial 

museum and memorial to the Battle of Verdun
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Instance of	military museum
Location	Verdun, arrondissement of Verdun, Meuse, Grand Est, Metropolitan France, France
Inception	1967
Visitors per year	191,106
Sponsor	Bank of France Crédit Mutuel Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission Enedis
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49° 11′ 42.36″ N, 5° 26′ 01.03″ E
Authority file  Q3333143 ISNI: 0000000119603600 VIAF ID: 169841078 Library of Congress authority ID: n98036660 National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007427278105171 OpenStreetMap node ID: 6189830553 Reasonator Scholia Wikidocumentaries KML file WikiShootMe OpenStreetMap Search depicted

The museum building

Exhibition outside ...

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  French cannon Bange 155 mm Ml 1877
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  French cannon 105 mm Schneider Modele 1913
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  German trench mortar (Minenwerfer) 170 mm n/A (neuer Art) model with long barrel
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  38 cm German shell, 760 kg weight, range 23 - 38 km

... and inside of the museum building

Soldiers

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  French soldier in 1914
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  French colonial soldier
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  French soldier in 1916

Rifles

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  French fusil Lebel Mle 1886 with the grenade launcher VB
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  German rifle Mauser Gewehr 98 with rifle grenade laucher
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  US rifle Springfield M1903
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  German 5 round stripper clip with 7.92x57mm IS ammunition for the Mauser rifle

Muchine guns

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  French machine gun Hotchkiss M 1914
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  French machine gun Chauchat
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  German machine gun MG 08/15

Guns, limbers, caissons

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  German 10,5 cm light field howitzer M 16
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  French 155 mm gun Schneider M 1917
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  French field gun 75 mm Mle 1897 with limber
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  Caisson (ammunition carriage)

Mortars and grenade launchers

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  German trench mortar Lanz 91 mm
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  French grenade launcher 58 mm type 1
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  German grenade laucher M 1916 (Gr.W.16) "Taube" ("Pigeon")
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  German grenade "Pigeon" M 1916

Helmets and anti-gas masks

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  French TNH-type and english gas mask
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  US Brodie helmet and gas mask with bag
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  French sentry's helmet designed to protect the face, invented by Maj. Pollack, MD, medical officer
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  German cuirrassier's helmet
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  Helmet of prussian dragoon officer

Aeroplanes

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  German fighter aircraft Fokker E.III
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  French fighter aircraft Nieuport 11

Hand grenades

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  Defensive fragmentation grenade 16 type
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  French grenade Citron-Fougass type
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  Disc grenade "Turtle" M 1914
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  French grenade "Bracelet"
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  German grenades
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  Incendiary french grenade
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  IPercussion scoop grenade
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  French grenades bag

Shells

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  75 mm tracing shell M 17
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  Shells of WWI. From left to right: 90 mm fragmentation shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell 77/14 model, 75 mm high explosive shell model 16, 75 mm fragmentation shell
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  75 mm flare
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  75 mm incendiary shell G6 fire

Other equipment

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  French truck Berliet
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  German military bugle
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  German military shove
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  German military barbed wire cutters
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  French hygiene tools
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  French sphygmomanometer used during World War I