VIEW OF THE MINE CRATERS, WHERE VAUQUOIS VILLAGE USED TO STAND
(Seen from the crest of Vauquois Ridge.) In the background: Argonne Forest.
Cazeneuve of the Opera Comique, Adjutant of the 46th Regiment of the line, who had volunteered at the age of fifty-four, was also killed at Vauquois by a bomb which shattered his dug-out.
Vauquois for long remained a particularly dangerous sector, the scene of frequent hand-to-hand struggles, of mining and counter-mining, and of continuous bombardment. The Germans were not reconciled to the loss of this position, which gave the French an outlook over Varennes and the road which formed a continuation of the light railway which they had built between