German Ossuary

Today we moved on from Normandy into Brittany. Before leaving a visit to Huisnes-sur-mer to look around the Ossuary. As always a great feeling of emotion, the setting is beautiful and from the top a view of Mont St Michel. We noticed a number of female names, I wonder if they were the children mentioned below?

We have arrived for the house sit although we don't start for another week or so, a complication within the family here means we are staying in their gite next door. We have met the cat and dog and hope to get to know them during the next week or so.
The weather is amazing,

From the Internet:
The mausoleum at Huisnes-sur-Mer is a circular double-story structure with 34 crypts on each level. Each crypt has the remains of up to 180 soldiers. If known, the names, dates of birth and death, and officer’s rank are inscribed on a bronze plaque. In addition to the 11,887 German soldiers buried here, the necropolis also has the remains of a few children and other German civilians who died as a direct consequence of the war.

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