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Created during the Sedan-Carignan battles in August 1914, the national war cemetery of Torcy contains 2,909 bodies. Established in 1923, from the First World War this remembrance site holds the bodies of 2,794 French servicemen, 2,050 of which are in ossuaries, 45 Brits, 38 Russians including 29 in a collective grave, 24 Romanians including 1 in an individual grave, and 4 unknown Italians.

From the Second World War, there are eight French and six Commonwealth aviators also buried in this cemetery.

In the town of Noyers-Pont-Maugis, “La Marfée” National Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Ardennes in August 1914 and the final offensive toward the Meuse in 1918. Established just after the battles, the cemetery was redesigned in 1920, after which it received the bodies of other soldiers buried in the sector of Sedan. Today, the cemetery holds 1,723 dead, including 1,202 in the ossuary, together with some foreigners (British and Romanian, among others). Adjoining it is a German cemetery established in 1922 where 14,055 German soldiers from the 1914-1918 war and 12,788 from the 1939-1945 war are buried.

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Floing National Cemetery, established in 1960, is home to 2,237 victims of WWI and WWII. The cemetery is arranged to house bodies exhumed from municipal cemeteries in Ardennes.

There are 333 French soldiers from WWI buried there. And from WWII, there are 1,957 French soldiers, including members of the Resistance, two Serbs and a Spaniard.

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The Chestres National Military Cemetery contains the remains of 2,902 soldiers and civilian casualties who died during the two World Wars. The cemetery was created in 1919 after the battles of Vouziers in 1918, and was expanded between 1922 and 1935 to take bodies exhumed from temporary cemeteries and isolated graves in various municipalities in the Ardennes department.

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The national war cemetery of Rethel contains the bodies of 3,542 French, British, Romanian and Russian soldiers who died during the First World War. Created in 1923, this war cemetery was rearranged in 1966 to hold bodies exhumed from the municipal cemetery and military cemeteries located south of Aisne. In total, 3,117 French soldiers are buried here, including 1,202 in two ossuaries. 110 Brits, 12 Romanians and 213 Russians who died during the First World War are laid to rest alongside them.

Three French soldiers who died for France during the fighting in May 1940 are also buried here, including Charles de Funès de Galzara, the brother of the famous French comedian.

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The national war cemetery of Orfeuil contains the bodies of 1,342 French soldiers killed during the battle of Vouziers in 1918, 259 of which were laid to rest in two ossuaries. Following the battles, this war cemetery was established up until 1935 to hold the bodies exhumed from isolated graves or temporary military cemeteries to the south of Vouziers. Among the French soldiers, the bodies of six Russian soldiers are also buried here. The bereaved families erected, inside this war cemetery, a stone obelisk dedicated to the soldiers of the units engaged in combat in 1918. This remembrance site is located near the German cemetery where 3,088 soldiers were laid to rest.

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The Vitry-le-François cemetery - which was created in 1921 in order to welcome the bodies of soldiers exhumed from temporary military cemeteries and isolated graves in the Perthois area or from the town's military hospitals - brings together the bodies of nearly 4,000 soldiers who died for France, 2,558 of whom lie in an ossuary. Seven British soldiers who died between 1914 and 1918 are also buried here. The bodies of 62 French soldiers from the Second World War, who were from this area and the Haute-Marne, were also brought here.

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The national necropolis of Sommepy-Tahure is situated on a hillside and contains 2,201 Frenchmen (721 in an ossuary). The cemetery was redesigned between 1920 and 1924 to bring together the remains of soldiers exhumed from isolated graves and temporary municipal cemeteries in Burgundy, Saint-Clément-à-Arnes and Warmeriville. Among the combatants lies the body of Michel Coiffard (grave 1027), who, after being discharged due to injury, managed to enlist in the air force, joining 154 squadron and winning his first victory in September 1917. Winning fame in the skies above the Champagne region, he succeeded in downing 33 German observation balloons. On 28th October 1918 he received a serious chest injury and, despite landing without mishap, he died in Bergnicourt in the Ardennes.

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The Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe National Cemetery is home to soldiers who died for France in battle in Champagne in 1914-1918 and in the September 1915 offensive. It holds over 2200 bodies.

Among the French soldiers, you will find Reverend Pierre Compagnon (Grave 328), a former missionary in Japan and the head of the Foreign Missions Society. He was exempt from military duty, yet enlisted in the 8th Field Artillery Regiment for the duration of the war. As a volunteer chaplain, he devoted himself to the wounded and to all the men in his unit. He was commended in the Army Corps on 31 May 1915 and was awarded the Military Medal (May 1915). After being seriously wounded in Mesnil-les-Hurlus, he died on 21 September 1915 at the age of 56.