Navarin Memorial (Monument de Navarin) also known as the Navarin Ossuary (Ossuaire de Navarin) to the fallen soldiers of the Champagne Armies located between Sommepy-Tahure and Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus in Marne region in north-eastern France. Approximately 10,000 French soldiers fallen in the Battles of Champagne during the First World War are buried in the ossuary under the memorial erected in 1924. The statue by French sculptor Maxime Real del Sarte topped the memorial.


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