The national necropolis of Fleury-les-Aubrais
La nécropole nationale de Fleury-les-Aubrais. © ECPAD
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Created in 1951, the national necropolis of Fleury-les-Aubrais contains the bodies of 3,540 soldiers who died for France in the two world wars, 3,402 buried in individual graves and 138 whose remains are in an ossuary, plus two French servicemen whose identities are unknown, one who died in Indochina (1946-54) and the other in North Africa (1954-62).
From World War I, the necropolis contains the remains of 637 Frenchmen and one Pole and, from World War II, 2,850 French soldiers, mostly killed during the French campaign (May - June 1940), three Poles, two Czechoslovakians and one Belgian.
In the ossuary are the remains of 44 colonial infantrymen who fell in the 1940 French campaign, barbarically executed by the Nazis in Clamecy (Nièvre) in June 1940. Some of their identities have recently been discovered: eleven came from Algeria, six from Guinea, five from the Ivory Coast, four from Morocco and two from Senegal.
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Fleury-les-Aubrais
Au nord d’Orléans, D 97
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