The Zuydcoote national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Zuydcoote. © ECPAD
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Created in 1921 close to former campaign medical units, the Zuydcoote national cemetery initially brought together soldiers who had succumbed to their injuries in various Dunkirk hospitals in 1914-1918, then from 1953 onwards they were joined by the bodies of soldiers who had died for France in 1940 during Operation Dynamo.
Today, this national cemetery holds the bodies of 2 053 French soldiers, 2 037 of whom lie in individual graves. A collective grave brings together the remains of 16 soldiers. Alongside them lies one Russian, but also 201 Germans, including 31 in an ossuary. This cemetery comprises three plots: the 1914-1918 French plot, the 1914-1918 French Muslim plot, and the 1939-1945 French plot that contains 917 soldiers and resistance fighters from the Nord region and 14 Spaniards posted to workers' companies. A British military cemetery bringing together 177 bodies adjoins the Zuydcoote cemetery.
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