NATIONAL CRAON NECROPOLIS

The national necropolis of Craonnelle was created in 1920, when a cemetery had already been set up here during the war. It gathers 3,934 bodies: all of them are combatants who fell during the battles of the Chemin des Dames, between 1914 and 1918. 24 British soldiers, 7 of whom are identified, and 2 Belgian soldiers are among those buried here. Note, in the neighboring communal cemetery, the funeral monument of the Descubes Saint-Désir family, built in the form of a Greek temple.