The Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt. © ECPAD
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Created in 1950, the Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt national cemetery is a combined cemetery, for on that date the remains of French soldiers who had died for their country during the French campaign (May-June 1940) and during the fighting for national liberation (1944-1945) were brought together. As a result of the Second World War, there are 2,106 soldiers and resistance fighters, as well as three Poles, a Spaniard and a Romanian.
This site was developed from 1972 to 1974 in order to welcome the mortal remains of 126 soldiers from the Great War. All of the bodies - including those from the Great War - were exhumed in the Eure, Oise, Somme and Seine-Maritime departments. The layout of this site thus reflects its history, since the 1939-1945 graves are set out in a semi-circle at the entrance, whilst those from 1914-1918 are aligned at the rear of the cemetery.
Among the 2,237 soldiers who lie here are the bodies of Major Bouquet, Captain Speckel and the infantrymen Lena Faya and Aka Tano, who were summarily executed in June 1940 in the Bois d'Eraines. The remains of the liner Meknès were also brought to the Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt cemetery. On 24 July 1940 this ship was torpedoed at sea, leaving 430 dead - including Christian Werno.
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Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt
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