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Le Sourd national war cemetery in Lemé

Le Sourd

La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © Guillaume Pichard

 

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Established between 1934 and 1936, this cemetery was created by the German army in 1916 to bury the soldiers of the Battle of Guise on 28 and 29 August 1914, then later those that died in October 1918. Inaugurated in the presence of Wilhelm II, since then other bodies have been laid to rest there having been exhumed from cemeteries in Aisne.

This war cemetery contains 1,333 French soldiers including 571 in an ossuary, 727 Germans, 25 Russians, two Italians and a Romanian who all fell between 1914 and 1918.

There are the bodies of three French servicemen and two civilians buried here from the Second World War.

Among the soldiers buried here, are the remains of a lieutenant of the 71st Infantry Regiment, Pierre de Raguenel de Montmorel, who died on 29th August 1914. Three of his brothers, also officers, also lost their lives during the conflict.

On the German side, also buried in this cemetery is Friedrich von Bismarck, Oberstleutnant, grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who died on 5th November 1916.

The cemetery has several monuments in memory of both German and French regiments.

 

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © Guillaume Pichard

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © Guillaume Pichard

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © Guillaume Pichard

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © Guillaume Pichard

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © Guillaume Pichard

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © ECPAD

  • La nécropole nationale de Lemé. © ECPAD

  • PC d'un général installé aux environs de Guise pendant la  bataille, août 1914. © Collections BDIC

  • Camion automobile transportant des obus de 155 court, novembre 1914. © Collections BDIC

  • Monument funéraire allemand à Guise, 1914. © Archives départementales de l'Aisne - 2Fi_00226

  • Convoi de soldats allemands circulant dans le village de Saint-Gobert, 1915. © Collections BDIC

  • Convoi d'automobiles sanitaires sur une route, mars 1915. © Collections BDIC

  • Sur une place, militaires allemands devant des bâtiments en ruine, Guise, 1917. © Archives départementales de l'Aisne - 2Fi_00377

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