Fouille du « Moulin rouge» à Thélus, lieu de fraternisation franco-allemande en 1915

German photograph of the Moulin Rouge soon before its destruction in early 1915

The Corporal Louis Barthas

In the Zivy sector, between Thélus and Neuville-Saint-Vaast, French troops a few minutes before the assault of 25 September 1915

Thélus, in the Zivy sector. A rare photograph of a “muddy ceasefire”, where we see German and French soldiers armed with only shovels, wandering through a “no man’s land” while waiting for the water and mud in the front line trenches to dry, before going back into them to continue combat

General view of the Moulin Rouge described by Barthas during the winter of 1915, and which was the subject of an archaeological excavation one century later, to the day

The mill in the process of excavation. At the center of the photo, the part that was cemented by the Germans at the end of 1914/beginning of 1915

Trench perpendicular to the Moulin Rouge trench, with part of its timbering preserved

The remains of two French soldiers of the 126^th Infantry Regiment, discovered in Thélus in 2012

The tag of Henri Faux, a soldier of the 50^th Infantry Regiment, incorporated in the Périgueux region and deceased for France on 26 September 1915. The remains of this French soldier were discovered in December 2011 by the Archaeology Service of the city of Arras

Site map

National survey map showing the network of trenches between Thélus and Neuville-Saint-Vaast. The Moulin Rouge described by Barthas was recorded on this map by the military