Members from the DŽpartement du DŽminage, Moselle district, collecting Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), from the ‘Great War’ battlefields around the city of Verdun.

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Guy Momper; Demi-Chef, Département du Déminage, Metz. De-fusing a WWII-era 1000lb British aerial bomb. Revigny-sur-Ornain, Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Lorraine, France. 2008

Members from the Département du Déminage, Moselle district, collecting Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), from the ‘Great War’ battlefields around the city of Verdun.

The démineurs work in the areas designated ‘Zone-Rouge’ after the Armistice of 1918. Today the forest still remains out-of-bounds to the general public due to the continuing hazzard of the explosive remnants of war. The Department for the Interior, (France), estimate that there are twelve million unexploded shells from WWI, in the Verdun sector alone.