Belles-Forêts - Bisping National Military Cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Belles-Forêts - Bisping. © ECPAD
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After the Battle of Sarrebourg, in August 1914 the German army buried the bodies of French and German soldiers in the same cemetery. At the end of the war, the site was expanded by the French government to take the bodies of soldiers exhumed from temporary military cemeteries around Bisping, Fribourg, Hertzing and Saint-Georges. Today, close to a German military cemetery containing 528 bodies, the Belles-Forêts – Bisping National Military Cemetery holds the remains of 380 French soldiers, fifty of whom are buried in individual graves. A monument was erected at this cemetery dedicated to the fallen from the 16th army corps engaged at Bisping from 18 to 20 August 1914.
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Belles-forêts
Au nord-ouest de Sarrebourg, D 27
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