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Chestres Military Cemetery

Chestres Military Cemetery

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Chestres Military Cemetery

Name: Chestres Military Cemetery
Rating: 1.6

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Location: Great East, France

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1. Grandpré Castle – Grandpré loop from Cornay

68.5km

04:09

520m

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2. End of Voie Verte Sud-Ardennes – Vouziers loop from Savigny-sur-Aisne

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01:07

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3. End of Voie Verte Sud-Ardennes – Vouziers loop from Olizy

42.4km

02:37

280m

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Willem VS

September 2, 2023

The Nécropole nationale de Chestres is a military cemetery in Chestres, a commune in Vouziers, in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region, France. The cemetery contains 3,065 French soldiers who died during the First World War. The cemetery is located on the right bank of the Aisne valley, at an altitude of 114 meters, a few hundred meters from the top of the hill, at the place called Les Sablons.
There are also other graves in this cemetery, including a Czechoslovak section with 284 casualties in October 1918, of which 160 are unknown in an ossuary. The bodies come from Sugny, Condé-lès-Vouziers, Chestres, Terron-sur-Aisne and Vrizy. There is a monument with the inscription "In memory of the legionnaires of the 21st and 22nd Czechoslovak regiments who fell on the battlefield in 1914-1918 next to their comrades of the Allied armies for freedom"3. There is also a Russian section with 124 bodies of prisoners of the Germans, 10 graves of Belgian citizens who were deported by the Germans as prisoners for work and 3 British graves.

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Chestres Military Cemetery

1. Grandpré Castle – Grandpré loop from Cornay

2. End of Voie Verte Sud-Ardennes – Vouziers loop from Savigny-sur-Aisne

3. End of Voie Verte Sud-Ardennes – Vouziers loop from Olizy

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