Douaumont Ossuary (Ossuaire de Douaumont) and Douaumont National Cemetery (Nécropole nationale de Fleury-devant-Douaumont) in Fleury-devant-Douaumont near Verdun in Meuse region in north-eastern France. Over 16,000 French soldiers fallen in the Battle of Verdun during the First World War are buried at the cemetery. Remains of at least 130,000 unidentified French and German soldiers fallen in the Battle of Verdun are buried in the underground crypt under the memorial church designed by French architects Léon Azéma, Max Edrei and Jacques Hardy and completed in 1932.

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