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Photo by Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | 40 feet below the village church in the quaint French village of Bouzincourt are caves where hundreds of Canadian and British WWI soldiers found safety 99 years ago during the battle of the Somme. Many of these young soldiers would die in battle shortly after inscribing their names in stone. They left messages to the future not knowing if anyone would ever see them. Their names have been in complete darkness for a century.

In December, 2014 I was honored to be the first person to comprehensively explore these caves and discovered 829 names making Bouzincourt the largest repository of Canadian WWI soldiers‘ inscriptions and the second largest repository of British names on The Western Front. Here, visitors can touch the past as if it was yesterday.
Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien was in Bouzincourt as a British soldier at least three times in the summer of 1916. One can easily visualize what Tolkien would have seen here underground…a netherworld, an alternative universe where human beings survived in a subterranean world when the earth’s surface became inhospitable to human survival. It’s no surprise that Tolkien didn’t write about these caves in his personal diary. Soldiers on both sides of the conflict rarely wrote about these underground sanctuaries fearing attack. Last month CNN http://tiny.cc/a7bo1x and Reuters http://tiny.cc/65bo1x covered the story.

Bouzincourt is a must see place where visitors can feel an intimate human connection to WWI like no other place on the Western Front. It will soon be open to the public.

To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi.

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