Montceaux-lès-Provins National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Montceaux-lès-Provins. © ECPAD
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Located at a place known as “Behind the chestnut trees”, the Montceaux-lès-Provins National Cemetery is home to soldiers who died for France in the Battle of the Two Morins in September 1914. This cemetery dates from 1920 and was redesigned in 1934 to include soldiers who died during this battle that were initially buried in the military graveyards surrounding Montceaux-lès-Provins or in the communal cemetery. The National Cemetery holds 223 bodies, including 68 individual graves. The remains of 155 soldiers were collected in two ossuaries.
Following the fighting of September 1914, as often happened, civilians were required to bury the dead. Bodies were collected and divided across two ossuaries, while individual graves were kept for soldiers who died in the Villiers-Saint-Georges military hospital in 1918. Collective graves were used up until 1915, but individual graves became more commonplace. Furthermore, the law of 29 December 1915 granted soldiers who died for France the right to be buried in individual graves. Therefore, the Montceaux-lès-Provins Cemetery is typical of military cemeteries from the beginning of WWI and representative of the way French military authorities managed the deceased.
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