Chauny National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Chauny. © ECPAD
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Built in 1919, the Chauny National Cemetery holds bodies that were exhumed from temporary military cemeteries in the Chauny, Coucy and Laon region. In 1953, the remains of soldiers who had died during the Second World War were buried there. In this cemetery lie 468 French soldiers, including 139 in an ossuary for the period 1914-1918, and 18 killed in May-June 1940, including eight whose identities are unknown. The cemetery is located near a German cemetery with 1,527 tombs and a British cemetery where 435 soldiers are buried.
Among the soldiers buried here lie Roger Turpaud, a soldier in the 276th infantry regiment (IR), a legal journalist at the Figaro and later editor of the Police Commissioners' Newspaper and Financial Administration (plot 1, grave no. 71) and Jean-Louis Coqueton, a corporal in the 278th IR, head of office at the Creuse prefecture, who was wounded and taken prisoner on 21 September 1914 at Moulin-sous-Touvent. He died at the German lazaretto in Chauny on 1 October 1914 (plot 2, grave no. 14).
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