In the little cemetery on the hillside hundreds of heroes sleep their last sleep.
The slopes near the road throughout this district are one vast cemetery, while the wood proper hides beneath its soil hundreds of dead entombed by the explosion of mines or the falling-in of trenches.
This wood of tragic memories was called by the Germans “The Wood of Death,” or “The Widows’ Wood.”
Leave Pont-à-Mousson by Avenue Carnot, cross the railway (l.c.), leaving N.57 on the left (which follows the railway towards Nancy) and continue along N.58 to Montauville, 2 km. from Pont-à-Mousson.
This village did not suffer much. On entering, there are several large concrete machine-gun blockhouses on the right.
The nearest dressing station was at Montauville, in the cellar of a ruined house. First aid was given in the trenches or in the little hut near the big oak tree. From Montauville the wounded were taken in motors to Pont-à-Mousson. There was a constant procession of ambulances, stretcher-bearers and hospital attendants on the road.