Moosch national war cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Moosch. © ECPAD
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Created in 1920, the national war cemetery of Moosch contains the bodies of soldiers who died for France in Haute-Alsace between 1914 and 1916. Expanded until 1935 to include the remains of bodies exhumed from temporary military cemeteries of the valleys of Thur and Doller.
Among these soldiers, lies Richard Nelvill Hall. This American volunteer was killed on Christmas Eve 1915 by shellfire, while driving his ambulance and carrying out a new round on the slopes of Hartmannswillerkopf. He was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre. The body of General Serret, commander of the 66th Infantry Division (DI) died on 6 January 1916 from wounds sustained on Hartmannswillerkopf, is also buried in this war cemetery. In total, nearly 25,000 soldiers died on the slopes of Hartmannswillerkopf, 12,000 of which were French.
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