Vienne-le-Château French national war cemetery, La Gruerie
La nécropole nationale de Vienne-le-Château, La Gruerie. © ECPAD
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Located opposite the Saint-Thomas en Argonne national war cemetery, the La Gruerie cemetery contains, in one ossuary, the bodies gathered from the Gruerie woods. Created in 1923, this mass grave preserves the memory of almost 10,000 unidentified soldiers. Bearing only the inscription "Aux Morts de la Gruerie 1914-1918", a monument, the work of Raoul Eugène Lamourdedieu (1877-1953), stands on this grave. It was inaugurated on 7 July 1929. Beneath the features of Marianne, this victorious sculpture, in ancient dress, carried in one hand the flame of memory and the other arm raised horizontally as if to indicate the mass grave. Below ground, numerous plaques have been put up, as a symbol of the grief felt by the families of the disappeared soldiers.
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Vienne-le-Château
À l’ouest de Verdun, D 63
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