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The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) [1] is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. It is located in Douaumont-Vaux, France, within the Verdun battlefield, and immediately next to the Fleury-devant-Douaumont National Necropolis. [2]
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 French town of Verdun was the site of the Battle of Verdun during the First World War, one of the most costly battles in military history.Since then, cemeteries and memorials have been established for casualties on both sides, as well as for significant individuals and events related to the battle.
French memorial of the battles of the Marne; French military cemetery: Germania; French military plot of the dead of November 11, 1918 of Vrigne-Meuse; French Monument-ossuary: Haute-Chevauchée; French municipal cemetery and chapel: Mondement-Montgivroux; French national cemetery: the prisoners of war: Sarrebourg; French national necropolis ...
Monuments aux Morts in La Chapelle-de-Guinchay, Saône-et-Loire.. Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I.After the end of the 1914–1918 war there was a frenzy to build memorials to commemorate those who had been killed and it has been calculated that in this period well over 36,000 individual memorials were erected throughout France ...
The Verdun Memorial is a war memorial to commemorate the Battle of Verdun, fought in 1916 as part of the First World War. It is situated on the battlefield, close to the destroyed village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont in the département of Meuse in north-eastern France .
The monument of the Haute Chevauchée is dedicated to the French, American and Italian soldiers who died fighting in the Forest of Argonne in World War I. It was designed by the architect Bolloré, inaugurated on 30 July 1922 by Raymond Poincaré and blessed by Monseigneur Ginisty, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Verdun .
The war memorial in the parish church is a most interesting one and in the church there is also a second commemoration of the 1914–1918 war, this being a painting by the then curate. The parish church monument lies against the wall south of the nave under the crucifix.