DEUTSCHER SOLDATENFRIEDHOF HOHROD,

HOHROD (HAUT-RHIN)

 

N. of Munster, near Le Linge Memorial Park and Museum.

Records 1496 German burials.

 

 

 

 

WIR LIEGEN ZUSAMMEN IN REIH UND GLIED
WIR STANDEN ZUSAMMEM IM LEBEN
DRUM GLEICHES KREUZ UND GLEICHER SCHMUCK
WARD UNS AUFS GRAB GEGEBEN
NUN RUHEN WIR AUS VOM HEISSEN STREIT
1914 UND HARREN GETROST DER EWIGKEIT 1918

which can be loosely translated as:

TOGETHER WE LIE BY RANK AND FILE
AS TOGETHER WE STOOD IN LIFE
AND SO WE SHARE DECORATION, AND CROSS
IN OUR GRAVE AS WE REST FROM STRIFE.
WE REST INDEED FROM THE TORRID FIGHT
FOREVER BOND IN GOD'S GREAT LIGHT

 

Our thanks to Gaston Graf for completing the German text (incomplete due to damage) and to Andrew "the Bard of Burntwood" Bamji for coining up a rhyming translation.