The Bayon national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Bayon. © ECPAD
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The Bayon national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died during the battle of the Trouée de Charmes (or Charmes Breach) and those of the wounded who succumbed to their injuries at the supplementary hospital n°2 in the Sœurs de Saint-Charles hospice. Created in 1914, this military cemetery brings together the bodies of 169 French soldiers, 96 of whom lie in individual graves. Two ossuaries preserve the memory of 69 soldiers. Alongside these soldiers who died in 1914-1918 lie three French soldiers, a Polish soldier and four German soldiers who were killed during the Second World War.
Within the cemetery is a war memorial from the commune of Bayon, showing the symbolic attachment of the local population to those who died, and who are also remembered by means of a stained glass window in the parish church.
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Bayon
Au sud-ouest de Lunéville, D 9
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