“Bones from 130,000 unidentified soldiers in the ossuary at Verdun. Incredible.”
Ii remember going there as a child back around 1957. A friend of mine and I went around to the back side and there were little ground level windows. We looked in through many of them to be surprised at rooms full of human bones.
Sounds like you were a military dependent in the 50’s. Same here, my dad was stationed at Poitiers from 58-61.