These civilian victims include, notably, the remains of women and children, some of them very young, such as Madeleine Beaujeux aged 4 years (grave 157) and Louise Questroy aged 12 years (grave 89). Two sisters from Origny-en-Thiérache, Yvonne (aged 24) (grave 79) and Noëlla (aged 20) (grave 77) who died on 25 May and 7 June 1917 respectively, are buried there along with a father and his son from Colligies, Eugène Grenier (aged 21) and Ernest Grenier (aged 49) who died on 12 and 17 October respectively (graves 162 and 163).

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.

Also, 428 French soldiers and one Soviet soldier who lost their lives in the Second World War are buried here. The site lies next to a German cemetery containing the bodies of 2,332 soldiers, 911 of whom are buried in a collective grave.

A commemorative monument in the form of an obelisk stands in the French section, bearing the inscription Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori (It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country).

At the beginning of 1916, there were riots in towns in the north caused by shortages in supplies. In April, the German authorities responded by sending workers to neighbouring areas. Faced with international criticism, this deportation was soon stopped. Some of the workers, including Arthur Jaspart, lost their lives. He was a worker from Valenciennes who died, aged 21, on 9 July 1918 in the isolation ward at the German military railways workshop in Guise. He is buried in Guise cemetery (Grave No.1236).

The Saint-Quentin national cemetery - created in 1923 - was set up by the French military authorities in order to bring together the bodies of soldiers who had died during the battles of August 1914 and those of 1918, who had initially been buried in temporary cemeteries in the area.  Today, this cemetery contains almost 5,000 French soldiers including 1,319 - most of whom are non-identified - lying in two ossuaries. 117 Russians and two Romanians lie in individual graves. Many Indo-Chinese infantrymen and Tonkinese workers are also buried at this site, as well as 60 soldiers from the 173rd infantry regiment - the only active French army unit of Corsican origin.

With regard to the Second World War, 207 Frenchmen are buried here. One of these men is Henri Blondeau, staff officer with the 9th army, who was killed on 18 May 1940 when the headquarters of the 9th army - moved from Bohain to Le Catelet - was attacked by a line of German tanks from the VIIth Panzer division. Twenty French soldiers died during these violent combats. Alain Blondeau, the officer's son and a squadron helicopter pilot, died in Algeria on 26 November 1956. They were buried together (grave n° 3820).

A German cemetery located to the west of Saint-Quentin - which was created in 1914 during the German occupation and inaugurated by Emperor Wilhelm II - today contains the bodies of over 8,000 soldiers.

From 1949 to 1953, WWII victims were also buried in the cemetery. Maucourt National Cemetery preserves the memory of 24 French and six Commonwealth pilots (five British and one Canadian).

These Royal Air Force men were crew members of the Halifax B - MK.II - s/n HR784 HD. After bombing the Skoda armaments factory in Pilsen (Czechoslovakia), the aircraft was shot down on 17 April 1943, crashing in Maucourt. Of the seven crew members, only one managed to jump out with his parachute and was captured by the Germans.

The American poet Alan Seeger died during this assault. After growing up in Mexico, the former Harvard student moved to Paris where mobilisation took him by surprise. Sensitive and romantic, he  enlisted alongside fifty other American volunteers in the Foreign Legion. On 4 July 1916, the day of the US national holiday, the poet died after singing popular French songs throughout the night. Today, in all likelihood, his remains lie in the ossuary with many other volunteers who joined the Foreign Legion. The young writer’s grave was destroyed by subsequent bombings. He is the author of the poem “I have a rendezvous with death”, which he wrote on 1 July 1916. His body could not be identified with certainty. In 2006, a monument commemorating the writer and soldier was erected. It is a symbol of the military engagement of young people and Americans.

There is an imposing monument where Prince Louis Murat lies on the northeast edge of the village of Lihons. He was the great-great-nephew of Napoleon I and grandson of the Empire Marshall Joachim Murat. This young man of 19, a volunteer, was killed by the enemy on 21 August 1916. The imperial eagle atop the monument is now kept in Lihons town hall.

Furthermore, the Somme’s largest German cemetery, containing the bodies of 22,665 German soldiers, is located in Vermandovillers, and includes the grave of four pilots from Baron Manfred von Richthofen’s squadron.

The necropolis contains 7,033 bodies, including 5,362 in individual or collective graves. Four ossuaries contain the remains of 1,671 unknown soldiers. The cemetery also contains the remains of one German, one Russian, one Swede, one Belgian and many Foreign Legion volunteers of various origins (including Denmark, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Spain) who died during the Great War. There are also many colonial soldiers, infantrymen from Senegal and Algeria, cavalrymen and also troops from Indochina, who were heavily involved in the fighting on the Somme.

From the Second World War there is just one soldier, Olivier Kohn, who died on 9th June 1940 and rests in grave number 3815.

At the entrance to the cemetery is a monument paid for by the Italian community in the region, a symbol of Franco-Italian friendship that was inaugurated on 11th October 1923.