The national necropolis of La Croix-Ferlin, Bligny
La nécropole nationale de La Croix-Ferlin. © ECPAD
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Situated in La Croix Ferlin, the Bligny national necropolis contains the remains of French soldiers who died during fighting in the region in 1918. Redesigned in 1923 to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from individual graves and various temporary cemeteries, it now contains some 4,654 bodies, including 2,160 in individual graves. An ossuary contains the remains of 2,506 soldiers. Among these soldiers are interred the body of a Russian and two combatants who died for France during the 1939-45 war.
Near the necropolis is the Italian military cemetery of Bligny, the main memorial to the Italians’ engagement in the Great War, which contains 3,440 bodies.
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Bligny
À 17 km au sud-ouest de Reims, sur la RD 380
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