The Cléry-sur-Somme national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Cléry-sur-Somme. © ECPAD
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The Cléry-sur-Somme - or "Bois des Ouvrages" - national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Created in 1920, this cemetery was developed in 1936 in order to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from former temporary military cemeteries or from isolated graves on the former front line of the Somme. This cemetery holds the bodies of 2,332 Frenchmen, of whom 1,203 lie in individual graves and 1,129 are buried in two ossuaries.
Close to the cemetery is a monument erected "in memory of the glorious dead of the 363rd infantry regiment (RI) and of their victorious battles of 7 August and 3 September 1916".
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Cléry-sur-Somme
Au nord-ouest de Péronne, D938
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Musée Somme 1916 à Albert
Comité départemental du tourisme de la Somme
21, rue Ernest Cauvin
80000 Amiens
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