Aubérive National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale d'Aubérive. © Guillaume Pichard
Located in what is known as Le bois du Puits (“The Wood of the Well”), Aubérive National Cemetery is home to soldiers who died for France during battle in Champagne from 1914 to 1918. This cemetery, which dates back to 1920, was redeveloped between 1923 and 1926 to house bodies exhumed east of Reims, in the hills of Champagne and Aubérive. It now holds almost 7,000 bodies, including nearly 2,900 buried in three ossuaries.
Aubérive National Cemetery is adjacent to a Polish cemetery with 129 graves. In 1954, a Polish memorial of the two world wars was erected at the centre of this cemetery. There is also a German cemetery with over 5,000 bodies near the Aubérive cemetery.
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Auberive
Au nord de Châlons-sur-Marne, D 31
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Comité départemental du tourisme de la Marne
13 bis, rue Carnot
51006 Châlons-en-Champagne Cedex
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