Amiens Saint-Acheul National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale d’Amiens Saint-Acheul. © ECPAD
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Amiens St. Acheul National Cemetery is located north-east of Amiens. It is home to soldiers who died for France during WWI and, more especially, those killed during the fighting in the Somme. The cemetery holds 2,774 bodies, including those of 2,740 French soldiers, twelve Britons, nine Belgians, one Russian, one Chinese worker, as well as Indo-Chinese and Malagasy soldiers from 1914-1918. It also houses the bodies of ten French soldiers from 1939-1945. It was completed in 1921, and redeveloped in 1935. It also contains bodies exhumed from cemeteries in Boves, Cagny, Conty and Thoix.
A war memorial by the Amiens sculptor Albert Roze and funded by Le Souvenir Français was erected in the cemetery. It was inaugurated on 27 July 1924 at the Congress of the National Union of Reserve Officers in the presence of Marshall Joffre. A statue of a woman representing an allegory of mourning was added in front of the monument in 1925.
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