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Saales French national war cemetery

La nécropole nationale de Saales. © ECPAD

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The national war cemetery of Saales contains the bodies of soldiers who died for France during the fighting that took place during the summer of 1914, in vallée de la Bruche. Created and in 1921 and extended in 1924, this military cemetery brings together the bodies of 36 French soldiers who served with the 14th and 21st Army Corps. Ten of these soldiers were buried in individual graves and 26 were placed in an ossuary.

Containing the remains of French soldiers, the Saales war cemetery is characteristic of military cemeteries from the beginning of the First World War, and the treatment of the deceased soldiers. Indeed at that time, officers were usually buried in individual graves, while the troops were buried in mass graves. This principle lasted until 1915, but the use of individual graves was extended to all soldiers. The law of 29 December 1915 accorded all soldiers who died for France the right to be buried in an individual grave.

La nécropole nationale de Saales. © ECPAD

Offensive d'Alsace et de Lorraine, août 1914. © MINARM/SGA/DMCA/Joëlle Rosello

Vue de la frontière allemande, 1915. © Collections BDIC

Soldats dans une tranchée de la cote 607, Lusse, février 1915. © Collections BDIC

Cote 607 et les positions allemandes photographiés d'un créneau de tir. © Collections BDIC

Ruines du village de Saales, juin 1915. © Collections BDIC

Halte d'un bataillon de chasseurs sur la route de Planfaing, aux environs de Habeaurupt, février 1916. © Collections BDIC

En Alsace. Dessin de George Scott représentant un officier français accueilli par une Alsacienne, après quarante-quatre ans d'annexion à l'empire allemand. © Collection privée - FBN - DR

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