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Check out these inscriptions World War I soldiers scratched on underground caves as they hid from German bombing

Nov 9, 2018, 01:14 IST

The caves are only accessible by small spiral stairs in the Bouzincourt church seen below.

Some 12 yards under the surface, the caves were used by locals as early as the 17th century to store food and shelter their families and livestock.

"They knew that they may be about to die," Gusky told Reuters in 2015.

Many of the shapes carved out of the cave walls are designed specifically to allow a postcard to be inserted there, Gusky said.

Others are inscriptions of the name of a soldier, often followed by details of his injuries. Of the 829 names recorded in the caves, around 500 are of Canadian soldiers.

While others are crudely carved flags or hearts.

There are even relics not carved in the stone.

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