Nécropole Nationale de Crouy

The Nécropole Nationale de Crouy is a French military cemetery in the Aisne, created in 1917 during the Battle of the Chemin des Dames, and contains the remains of almost 3,000 soldiers who died during the First World War. Of the 2,991 dead from that period, 1,465 are buried in individual graves and 1,476 in two ossuaries, while 50 British soldiers are also buried there, 20 of whom could not be identified. After the war, bodies were transferred from temporary cemeteries at Bucy-le-Long and Missy-sur-Aisne to the site, which has since served as a sober but impressive reminder of the fierce fighting in the region. It is also the resting place of one French and two Polish soldiers from the Second World War.