The remains of craters from World War I shelling, photographed below the Douaumont cemetery, as France prepares to mark the centennial commemoration of the First World War Armistice Day, near Verdun, on November 7, 2018.
Barbed wire is seen on a fence at the Butte de Vauquois battlefield, near the eastern French city of Verdun, on November 6, 2018
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This picture taken on November 6, 2018, shows graves at a cemetery situated between the psychiatric hospital and the current municipal cemetery, nicknamed the "cemetery of the forgotten" in Cadillac, southwestern France. On November 11, men who were interned during or after World War I in the psychiatric asylum will be honored during the centenary of the armistice celebration ceremony. The majority were interned from 1914 to 1919, but others were victims of post-traumatic disorders. Of the 565 soldiers listed from 1914 to 1925, 220 died in the establishment.
French soldiers' tombstones are seen in the early morning light at the cemetery outside the World War I Douaumont ossuary, near Verdun, on November 7, 2018.
History enthusiasts, dressed in vintage army uniforms as Poilu (French soldiers in World War I), are pictured in Morhange, France, on November 5, 2018, prior to the start of a ceremony in tribute to the French soldiers killed in August 1914 during the battle at the border, as part of the celebrations of the centenary of the First World War.
A photo taken on October 20, 2018, shows Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral during a light show entitled "Dame de Coeur" as part of the First World War centennial celebrations.
Australian soldiers look up at the names of those who went missing in World War I, engraved on the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, on November 5, 2018.
A woman photographs the iconic poppy sculpture "Wave" as it opens at IWM North, its final presentation as part of 14-18 NOW's U.K.-wide tour of the poppies, on September 7, 2018, in Manchester, England.
The Weeping Window poppy installation, by the artist Paul Cummins and the designer Tom Piper, is pictured outside of the Imperial War Museum in London on October 31, 2018. Weeping Window is a cascade comprising several thousand handmade ceramic poppies seen pouring from a high location to the ground below.
A visitor looks at a dove-shaped formation of thousands of artificial red poppies, made out of red bottle tops, at the Botanic Garden in Meise, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War in Belgium, on November 2, 2018.
A Chelsea pensioner, in his ceremonial uniform as a retired member of the British army, poses with 6 foot "Tommy" figures at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, for the "There But Not There" campaign to commemorate the upcoming centenary of the end of World War I, on October 16, 2018.
World War I trenches, photographed at the Main de Massiges battlefield between the Champagne and Argonne fronts, on ground that was taken and lost several times by French and German troops between September 1914 and September 1915, in Massiges, France, on November 6, 2018.
A view of the ruined church at the Montfaucon-d'Argonne battlefield, near the eastern French city of Verdun, on November 6, 2018.
A damaged cannon is displayed in Belleau Wood behind the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, dedicated to the U.S. soldiers killed in the battle of Belleau Wood during World War I, photographed on November 6, 2018.
A white rose, a French flag, and a U.S. flag sit placed in front of a tombstone at the World War I Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, near Verdun, on November 6, 2018.
The body of an unknown Australian World War I soldier is laid to rest in Tyne Cot Military Cemetery on November 6, 2018, in Ypres, Belgium. Two Australian and one British unknown soldier were buried with full military honors during a commemoration service. The soldier of the Lancashire Fusiliers, who was killed in the battle of Passchendaele 101 years ago, was found lying next to his Australian comrades in what is believed to be a shell hole, during civil-engineering work on a road leading to the Tyne Cot Cemetery in May of 2016.
A wooden statue depicting a Poilu (French soldier in World War I) by the French artist Jean Bergeron is seen on the spot where the remains of 26 soldiers were discovered in 2013 in the destroyed village Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France, photographed on November 5, 2018.
A woman poses for a selfie at the "Never Again" poppy installation at Koenigsplatz in Munich, Germany, on November 5, 2018, as Europe prepares to mark the centenary of the ending of the First World War.
Images of poppies are projected onto the surfaces of the Nave of St. Albans Cathedral, forming part of a light and sound installation to commemorate the centenary of World War I, in St. Albans, England, on October 27, 2018.
A Yeoman Warder, commonly referred to as a "Beefeater," stands among thousands of lit flames that form part of an installation called "Beyond the Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers," in the dry moat of the Tower of London, to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, in London, on November 6, 2018.
The moat of the Tower of London is seen filled with thousands of lit torches on November 4, 2018.
Raindrops cover a photograph of Gerald Briedell of the Royal Irish Regiment who was killed in action on November 23, 1914, atop a cross placed in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in preparation for the annual Armistice Day commemoration for the dead and injured military and civilians in conflicts around the world, on November 11, photographed on November 7, 2018.
Footsteps are seen as a light snow falls at the Meuse-Argonne American World War I cemetery in Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, France, on October 30, 2018.
