Parties known as "moppers up" follow the first waves.
Supporting lines, scattered in the open in small columns follow the advance. In the foreground some attackers in the first wave caught by a storm of machine gun fire.
Pictures taken from the Guide: The "Battles of Champagne".
From VERDUN to METZ
The tourist can go from Verdun to Metz either by the Route Nationale No. 3, the Porte Saint-Victor—Haudiomont—Mars-la-Tour and the battlefields of August 1870 (see [page 166]), or by the Route Nationale No. 18 (the Route d'Étain) and R. D. 1.