Villiers-Saint-Georges National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Villiers-Saint-Georges. © ECPAD
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Located at a place known as the "The Path of Beauland" the Villiers-Saint-Georges National Cemetery is home to soldiers who died for France during battle in September 1914. The cemetery was built in the aftermath of the fighting, and was redeveloped in 1918 to include other soldiers from the Second Battle of the Marne who died in battle or in the on-site ambulance. The cemetery contains 60 bodies – 59 Frenchmen and one volunteer fighter from the Czech Army, Mentl Fransisck.
Commended in the Army in 1922, Villiers-Saint-Georges was one of the most advanced positions that the enemy reached in September 1914 and had its own military hospital during the war. The bodies of soldiers that were not claimed by their families lie in the military cemetery where the town’s War Memorial stands.
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Villiers-Saint-Georges
A l’ouest de Sézanne, D 15, D 403
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