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The Biaches national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the various battles that took place in the Somme during the First World War. Created in 1920, this cemetery was developed until 1936 in order to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from the temporary cemeteries in Biaches and Curlu. This cemetery holds 1,362 bodies, 1,040 of whom are buried in individual graves. Two ossuaries hold the mortal remains of 322 unknown soldiers.

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The Cléry-sur-Somme - or "Bois des Ouvrages" - national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Created in 1920, this cemetery was developed in 1936 in order to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from former temporary military cemeteries or from isolated graves on the former front line of the Somme. This cemetery holds the bodies of 2,332 Frenchmen, of whom 1,203 lie in individual graves and 1,129 are buried in two ossuaries.

Close to the cemetery is a monument erected "in memory of the glorious dead of the 363rd infantry regiment (RI) and of their victorious battles of 7 August and 3 September 1916".

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Known as the Cimetière des Charentais, the Moislains National Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the fighting which took place on 28 August 1914, in the area around this village. Established after the battle, this national cemetery was further developed in 1923-1924 and in 1944. The cemetery holds the bodies of 465 French soldiers, including 99 in individual graves and 366 in an ossuary.

In 1924, a memorial was built in the cemetery, paying tribute to these soldiers, most of whom came from Angoulême and Bergerac. An oak chest from Puy-de-Nelle (in the Charente) was placed at the foot of this memorial in 1960. Made by Gaston Rofidal, a veteran who served as an NCO in the 307th French Infantry Regiment during the war, the chest symbolically contains samples of earth from towns in the Charente. Damaged by the weather over the years, it was replaced in 2014.

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Rancourt National Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Somme. Established at the end of the war, this cemetery was developed from 1921 to 1988 to accommodate the bodies exhumed from the temporary cemeteries all along the former front lines, as well as from isolated graves, military communal graves and bodies found on the battlefields. More than 8,500 French soldiers are buried here, including 3,200 in four ossuaries. The cemetery also contains the graves of three civilian casualties and a French soldier killed during the Second World War.

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The Maurepas national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Franco-British Somme offensive (1916). Created following this offensive, it was developed in 1921 and then in 1936 to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from other temporary military cemeteries in Maurepas, Suzanne and the Albert area. This cemetery holds 3,657 bodies, 2,069 of whom are buried in individual graves. Two ossuaries hold the mortal remains of 1,588 unknown soldiers. The bodies of a French civilian victim, a Romanian and 19 Russian prisoners are buried by their sides.

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The Etinehem - or Cote 80 - national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the various battles that took place in the Somme during the First World War. Created after the fighting of 1916, on the very site of the cemetery of the temporary hospital set up in Etinehem, it was developed in 1923 in order to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from other temporary military cemeteries in the area.

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The Cerisy national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Somme offensive in 1916. Created during these battles, close to the temporary hospital, this cemetery was again developed in 1923 in order to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from the military plot at the Cerisy communal cemetery. This cemetery holds the bodies of 990 Frenchmen in individual graves.

A few hundred metres away is a British military cemetery, which brings together the bodies of 745 Commonwealth soldiers who died between 1914 and 1918, including 499 Britons, 60 Canadians, 70 Australians, 2 South Africans and 114 unknown soldiers.

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The Albert national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the First World War. Created in 1923, it was developed in 1928 and then in 1935 in order to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from other temporary military cemeteries or isolated graves located on the former front line of the Somme. This cemetery holds 6,290 bodies, including 3,411 in individual graves and 2,879 buried in four ossuaries. The bodies of three British soldiers, two of whom lie in an ossuary, are buried by their sides.

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Bridging the two départements of La Somme and the Pas-de-Calais, Serre-Hébuterne National Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the battle of Hébuterne in June 1915. Following excavations on the site of the former battlefield, this necropolis, established in 1919 at the request of the war veterans' association of the 243rd and 327th Infantry Regiments, was developed up until 1923 to accommodate the remains of the soldiers who fought with these units. It was finally transferred to the State on 11 June 1933, the date on which an annual Remembrance ceremony is held. The cemetery holds the bodies of nearly 850 French soldiers, many of whom came from the Nord and the Pas de Calais, together with the remains of 25 Belgian soldiers.

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Marcelcave National Cemetery (est. 1916) is located near a former hospital, and is home to soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Somme. It was developed in 1922 and 1936, at a place called Les Buttes, for bodies exhumed from temporary military cemeteries in the Somme. It houses the remains of 1,610 French soldiers including two Indochinese workers and many legionnaires from Spain, Italy, Greece, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Uruguay.