Doncourt-lès-Longuyon French national war cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Doncourt-lès-Longuyon. © ECPAD
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The national war cemetery of Doncourt-les-Longuyon contains the remains of soldiers who were killed during the Battle of the Frontiers. Established following the fighting in August 1914 by the German army, this sire contains the bodies of 95 French soldiers, buried beneath a monument financed by the family of one of them, Jean Colas of the 151st Infantry Regiment. This ossuary-monument bears the following inscription: "O.PAX! Nous nous sommes levés les premiers pour que la France put se lever toute entière à l'abri de nos corps 1914" [We rose up first, so that behind our bodies, the whole of France could rise up 1914].
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