The Crécy-au-Mont national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Crécy-au-Mont. © ECPAD
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The Crécy-au-Mont national cemetery holds almost 1,400 French soldiers including 356 who lie in two ossuaries, 1,865 Germans including 579 in an ossuary, but also 19 French soldiers who died in 1940 during the French campaign. Created in 1919, this cemetery was developed up until 1935 in order to bring together the bodies exhumed from temporary military cemeteries located in the numerous communes of the Aisne department.
From autumn 1917 onwards, the village of Crécy-au-Mont was occupied by the Germans, who only left in March 1918. It was taken back from the French in May 1918, to finally be liberated on 30 August 1918. Close to the village, the Germans set up a firing platform for one of the six big SKL/45 naval cannons, wrongly thought to be Big Bertha. This long-range artillery equipment was capable of bombing Compiègne.
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Crécy-au-Mont
À 36 km au sud-ouest de Laon. À partir du CD 937, à la croisée du chemin dit d'Estournelles et du vieux chemin Coucy-le-Château / Soissons
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Comité Départemental du Tourisme de l'Aisne
26, avenue Charles de Gaulle
02007 Laon Cedex
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