Bois de Béthelainville French national war cemetery
La nécropole nationale du Bois de Béthelainville. © ECPAD
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Created in 1916, during the Battle of Verdun, the Bois de Béthelainville national war cemetery contains the graves of 1,085 French soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun and ten soldiers killed during the Battle of France. Established up until 1935, this national war cemetery brings together the remains of soldiers initially buried in the military cemeteries of the Bois de Béthelainville, Dombasle and Jouy-en-Argonne. In this place and on the imitative of General Witte, a funerary monument was erected, dedicated to Lieutenant Witte and eight cavalrymen of the 24th Cavalry Regiment, killed at Côte 304 in June 1917.
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