He travelled to the French battlefields for the first time later that month and began planning new cemeteries and expanding existing ones.

Alexander William Thompson, leader of an English troop, had the idea on a French battlefield in 1918 to found an international Esperanto speaking Scouting organization to support international friendship and exchange of services.

The French battlefields had literally been stained with my blood and fertilized with the rot of my loins.

They spent a two month honeymoon in Europe, during which they visited the French battlefields where he had fought.

The New York Times reported the first use of mustard gas in battle on Sept. 8, 1917, some two years after less devastating war gases like chlorine and phosgene had first appeared on French battlefields.

When called back for an encore, he sang "Hallowed Ground," which he wrote this year after revisiting the graves on the French battlefield.

Although the novel tells the story of what a mother learned from her son about death after he dies in a French battlefield during World War I, the movie is set in the latter part of the 20th century.

She had not felt this alone and lonely since she first set out for the French battlefields over fifty years ago.

In August 1917 the AWRS expanded its activities to include collecting artefacts from the French battlefields.

She visited the French battlefields as well.