. Vive la France! . I he price of victory. TTic battlc-firld was dotted with tlioiisands upon thousands of ncw-madcmoundit and little wuodcii trusses. •Vf-v- L-*?! Z-^ fc^^ ^■« •«»— J .If^ Hl^ ^ •»A ^V ^ fll* w -a >> aj •-^ o u nS 3 L^ c« .s CO j; tc rt 4-1 C VI o yj t-H o •4k4[ « ;r; I, oo. < FIGHTING IN CHAMPAGNE 177 Scrawled in pencil on one of the pitiful littlecrosses I read: **Un brave—Emile Petit—Mortaux Champ dHonneur—Priez pour lui, Sixfeet away was another cross which marks thespot where sleeps Gottlieb Zimmerman, of theWiirtemberg Pioneers, and underneath, in Ger-man script
. Vive la France! . I he price of victory. TTic battlc-firld was dotted with tlioiisands upon thousands of ncw-madcmoundit and little wuodcii trusses. •Vf-v- L-*?! Z-^ fc^^ ^■« •«»— J .If^ Hl^ ^ •»A ^V ^ fll* w -a >> aj •-^ o u nS 3 L^ c« .s CO j; tc rt 4-1 C VI o yj t-H o •4k4[ « ;r; I, oo. < FIGHTING IN CHAMPAGNE 177 Scrawled in pencil on one of the pitiful littlecrosses I read: **Un brave—Emile Petit—Mortaux Champ dHonneur—Priez pour lui, Sixfeet away was another cross which marks thespot where sleeps Gottlieb Zimmerman, of theWiirtemberg Pioneers, and underneath, in Ger-man script, that line from the Bible whichreads: He fought the good fight. Close bywas still another little mound under whichrested, so the headboard told me, Mohammedben Hassen Bazazou of the Fourth AlgerianTirailleurs. In life those men had never somuch as heard of one another. Doubtless theymust often have wondered why they werefighting and what th
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