Orfeuil national war cemetery at Semide
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The national war cemetery of Orfeuil contains the bodies of 1,342 French soldiers killed during the battle of Vouziers in 1918, 259 of which were laid to rest in two ossuaries. Following the battles, this war cemetery was established up until 1935 to hold the bodies exhumed from isolated graves or temporary military cemeteries to the south of Vouziers. Among the French soldiers, the bodies of six Russian soldiers are also buried here. The bereaved families erected, inside this war cemetery, a stone obelisk dedicated to the soldiers of the units engaged in combat in 1918. This remembrance site is located near the German cemetery where 3,088 soldiers were laid to rest.
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Semide
À 32 km au sud-est de Rethel. À 1 km au sud-est d'Orfeuil, sur la D 15
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