Thionville National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Thionville. © ECPAD
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Thionville National Cemetery was built during the First World War by the German Army. It contains the graves of 787 German soldiers, 86 of whom are buried in an ossuary, 692 Russians (including 1 civilian worker), 161 French (including one from Alsace-Lorraine and a civilian victim, Justin Bray, charged with revealing the position of a German sentry and killed by firing squad on 28 August 1914 - Grave n° 119), three British, three Luxembourgers (civilian victims killed on 16 July 1918) and two Belgians. This cemetery, which was further developed in 1924, houses a memorial to the 1914-1918 War.
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