Plaque at the entrance of the French military cemetery of Faubourg Pavé (Nécropole nationale du Faubourg-Pavé) in Verdun (Meuse), France
It houses 5,722 soldiers' graves over an area of 19,522 m2. There are 5,095 French, 14 Russians, 1 Romanian and 1 Belgian who died in the First World War, and 602 French, 7 British, 1 Pole and 1 Belgian who died in the Second World War. The cemetery was created in 1914, and from 1916 to 1926, it housed many bodies exhumed from surrounding cemeteries and battlefields. In 1961, the bodies of soldiers from 1939-1945 were transferred there after having been exhumed throughout the department, and in 1965, the necropolis was entirely renovated. At the entrance to the cemetery, there is a monument dedicated "to the victims of German barbarism 1914-1918, 1939-1945". The necropolis also shelters the “square of the 7 unknown soldiers".
Size: 3840px × 5760px
Location: 22 Avenue du 30E Corps, 55100 Verdun, Meuse, France
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
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