NÉCROPOLE NATIONALE D'ORFEUIL

The Argonne was the scene of terrible fighting during the Great War. Among the region's memorial sites is the Orfeuil national necropolis, where 1,312 French soldiers and 6 Russian soldiers are buried, having fallen in the fighting at Vouziers in 1918. A stone obelisk has been erected in the necropolis in tribute to the soldiers of the units engaged in 1918 who died for France. A short distance away, the German cemetery contains the graves of 3,088 soldiers.