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The Maison Blanche or Neuville-Saint-Vaast German War Cemetery was established at the end of the First World War and is the largest German war cemetery in France. It is the final resting place for 44,833 German soldiers of which 8,040 were never identified and were buried in a common grave.
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Argonne; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardenne; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Lorraine; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient; List of World ...
The German military cemetery in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France, contains the graves of 1412 German and four French soldiers who died in World War I. The cemetery was opened by the German Army in August 1914 after heavy fighting in the area.
The Polish monument in the Bois du Puits cemetery. The German cemetery at Aubérive lies to the rear of the French cemetery at Le Bois du Puits. 5,359 German soldiers were buried here; 3,124 could not be identified and their bodies were laid in an ossuary. Many of the soldiers were Thüringian. French and Germans fighting in an Aubérive trench.
The Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery (also called Maison Blanche [1]) is a World War I cemetery located near Neuville-Saint-Vaast, a small village, near Arras, Pas-de-Calais, in Northern France. It is the largest German cemetery in France, containing 44,833 burials, of which 8,040 were never identified.
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Argonne; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardenne; List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing in Belgium and France; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Lorraine
The German War Cemetery of Morhange was created by the German military administration in August 1914, during the Battle of Morhange as part of the existing German garrison cemetery. After the war, the French military authorities exhumed the French war dead and took them to their own cemetery and the bodies of German soldiers were collected from ...
There are many other French cemeteries in the area. There is a German cemetery at Saint-Maurice-sous-les-Côtes containing 1,387 graves and the remains of 402 soldiers laid to rest in an ossuary, another at Viéville-sous-les-Côtes, this holding 1,044 graves with 135 men laid to rest in an ossuary and at Troyon-Vaux-les-Palameix which holds ...