Quiet on the Battle-scarred Fields

The date for Veterans Day is based on the armistice which ended World War One: November 11th, 1918

It's nearly a century since the beginning of the Great War, but as British photographer Michael St Maur Sheil documented, its battle fields, though quiet, still bear the scars of some of histories most concentrated and prolonged fighting.

Shell-pocked field near Verdun

Fort de Douaument - a defense near Verdun

Trench lines and shell craters still mark Beaumont Hamel on the Somme

Grave of French soldier Edouard Ivaldi in Champagne

And underground chapel made by French soldiers in lines near Soissons

Some more of his battle field photography can be seen here.