The Villers-Carbonnel national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Villers-Carbonnel. © ECPAD
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The Villers-Carbonnel 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, it was developed in order to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from the temporary cemeteries in Barleux and Flaucourt. 2,285 bodies are buried in this cemetery, including 990 in individual graves. Two ossuaries hold the mortal remains of 1,295 unknown soldiers. The bodies of 18 soldiers who died for France in the Somme during the French campaign of May-June 1940 are also buried by their sides.
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Villers-Carbonnel
Au sud de Péronne, N 17
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Comité départemental du tourisme de la Somme
21, rue Ernest Cauvin
80000 Amiens
Tél. : 03 22 71 22 71