The battle can be divided into four phases. Verdun was the longest battle of the First World War running from February to December 1916 – a total of 10 months.
This made Verdun an almost ideal target even more so because the trenches there were in a poor state or in some cases non-existent. GHQ had decided after the rapid fall of the Belgian forts in 1914 and the great need of artillery for the French army in the field that forts were of no great use. In 1916 the fortress of Verdun was stripped of its guns and the forts manned only by token crews. The city lies on both banks of the River Meuse in North-eastern France. Most people know the battle of Verdun started on the 21st February 1916. The following article is based on the recollections of General Caloni and recollections of the authors’ grandfather’s experience of Verdun. Field Artillery and Infantry on the Western Front during the FIrst World War.Brothers in Arms: Three Died and Three Survived the First World War.The Controversy of Commemoration in Ramsbottom after the First World War.How Reference numbers were used in WW1 Pension claims at Chelsea and in the Pension Issue Office.'Health in returning veterans of the First World War: The impact of wounds, gassing, injury, and medical and psychological conditions from a study of the pension ledgers' by Dr Peter Hodgkinson.
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