The national necropolis of Villers-Cotterêts
La nécropole nationale de Villers-Cotterêts. © ECPAD
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The national necropolis of Villers-Cotterêts contains the remains of 3,411 French soldiers (including 933 interred in two ossuaries), four British and four Russians who died during the First World War and ten French combatants who died for France between 1939 and 1940. The cemetery was created in 1914 for the bodies of the injured who died in the town's hospitals between 1914 and 1918. It was redesigned between 1920 and 1926 and again in 1936 in order to bring together bodies exhumed from municipal cemeteries in the Aisne.
The combatants include several soldiers from the combined Pacific battalion. These men from French Polynesia died during the fighting to take Vesles, Caumont and the farm of Le Petit Caumont on the Marlois plain in the Aisne.
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