NATIONAL NECROPOLIS OF REMBERCOURT-SOMMAISNE
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A national necropolis at Rembercourt-Sommaisne with the graves of servicemen and Colonel Jean Cazeilles.
During the Battle of the Marne, nearly 12,000 soldiers died in the fierce fighting at Vaux-Marie between September 7 and 10, 1914. This vast battlefield of 1.6 ha now houses the largest military cemetery in the Meuse after Douaumont, where 5,510 French soldiers and 4 Russian soldiers who died for France during the 1914-1918 war are buried. The necropolis contains 2,160 individual tombs and two ossuaries, between which was installed on August 21, 1932, the Pro Patria monument, designed by Roger de Préville. In the first ossuary lie 1,677 fighters, of whom 1,656 are unknown, and the second 1,680, of whom 1,663 are unknown. The cemetery also houses the tomb of Colonel Jean Cazeilles of the 21st RIC alongside those of Lieutenant Adrien Vochelle and Sergeant Marcel Monnerot, all three killed in Rembercourt a few days before the Armistice was signed. 4,978 Germans and 1 Austro-Hungarian are buried in the German cemetery, 583 are buried in individual graves, 4,395 of whom 4,338 are unknown in an ossuary.
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