World War I Graffiti Found in French Cave-- Part 1

From the April 7, 2015, Chicago Tribune "WWI cave graffiti sheds light on soldiers" by Greg Keller, AP.

Naours, France.  It's 100 feet underground and by headlamp you can see the name "James Cockburn 8th Durham L.I..  The date beside the name is April 1, 1917.  Right in the middle of World War I.

It is just one of nearly 2000 nearly century old inscriptions that have recently been found in Naours, a two-hour drive north of Paris.  When written, the huge battle of the Somme was going on just a few miles away which resulted in over one million casualties.

Photographer Jeff Gusky has tallied 1,821 individual names: 731 Australians, 339 British, 55 Americans, a handful of French and Canadian, and 662 others whose nationalities have yet to be traced.

--Cooter