The Ghosts Monument on Chalmont Hill in Aisne is to commemorate the Second Battle of Marne which took place in July 1918. In the foreground is the statue of France, carrying a shield bearing the symbolic figures of ‘Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité’.
The main sculpture represents 'seven soldiers with different weapons and, in their midst, a naked youth, a martyred hero, rising up in to the air’ He symbolises the suffering of mankind plunged into war.
I am in this shot to provide scale
It is difficult to imagine how frightening and war torn the view from this high point would have been in 1918…...
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