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Located at a place known as “Behind the chestnut trees”, the Montceaux-lès-Provins National Cemetery is home to soldiers who died for France in the Battle of the Two Morins in September 1914. This cemetery dates from 1920 and was redesigned in 1934 to include soldiers who died during this battle that were initially buried in the military graveyards surrounding Montceaux-lès-Provins or in the communal cemetery. The National Cemetery holds 223 bodies, including 68 individual graves. The remains of 155 soldiers were collected in two ossuaries.

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The Courgivaux National Cemetery is home to the bodies of soldiers who died for France in the First Battle of the Marne (September 1914). Created in the aftermath of the fighting, the cemetery was redone in 1921, then in 1929. This cemetery holds a total of 225 French soldiers, with 193 of those in the ossuary. It is located on the very battlegrounds of September 1914.

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This national military cemetery, that brings together almost 2,100 bodies, contains the remains of French soldiers who died in the fighting that took place in the region in 1918. From the Great War, 2,039 French soldiers buried in two ossuaries, 22 Britons including 11 who are non-identified, four civilians and a Russian lie there. The bodies of 29 soldiers who died for France in 1939-1945 also lie there.

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Located at "Les Chesneaux", this national cemetery contains the remains of 2,103 soldiers who died in the fighting that took place in the area in 1918. This cemetery was arranged in order to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from isolated graves or various temporary cemeteries. Around 2,088 bodies from the Great War, including 698 in two ossuaries, are gathered here. Nine Britons including two unknown soldiers, a member of the British Red Cross assigned to the French army and four Russians also lie here.

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The Dormans national necropolis contains the remains of about two thousand soldiers who died during fighting in the region in 1918. The cemetery was redesigned between 1918 and 1922 to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from isolated graves and various temporary cemeteries in the region (Anthenay, Igny-Comblizy, Soilly and Vandières). From the Great War there are some 1,895 French soldiers (including 661 in two ossuaries) and 22 British, notably RAF airmen. In 1954, the bodies of 34 combatants who died for France in June 1940, including seven unidentified bodies, were interred in the cemetery, including twin brothers Albert and Henri Adda, members of the 173rd Alpine infantry regiment, who died on 9th June 1940 in Maizy (grave 1292) and 13th June 1940 in Festigny (grave 1291) respectively. The adjoining German cemetery contains nearly two thousand soldiers, many of whom fell in 1918, belonging to regiments from Thuringia, Saxony and Eastern Prussia.

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This national necropolis contains the remains of French soldiers who died during fighting in the region in 1918. The cemetery was created between 1921 and 1934 to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from isolated tombs and temporary cemeteries in villages in the Marne valley such as Rueil, Binson and Méry. Today, it contains nearly 2,671 bodies, including 562 soldiers in two ossuaries. Many of these combatants were colonial infantrymen, notably Ivorians, Guineans, Malians and Senegalese from the 54th, 67th, 68th and 77th Senegalese infantrymen battalions (BTS).

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Situated in La Croix Ferlin, the Bligny national necropolis contains the remains of French soldiers who died during fighting in the region in 1918. Redesigned in 1923 to bring together the bodies of other soldiers exhumed from individual graves and various temporary cemeteries, it now contains some 4,654 bodies, including 2,160 in individual graves. An ossuary contains the remains of 2,506 soldiers. Among these soldiers are interred the body of a Russian and two combatants who died for France during the 1939-45 war.

Near the necropolis is the Italian military cemetery of Bligny, the main memorial to the Italians’ engagement in the Great War, which contains 3,440 bodies.

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Chauconin-Neufmontiers National Military Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the early days of the Battle of the Ourcq (September 1914). Created in the aftermath of the fighting, the Great Tomb of Villeroy continued to be expanded until 1924 and is typical of military cemeteries at the start of the First World War. At that time, troops were generally buried in mass graves. This practice continued until 1915, when the law of 29 December 1915 gave soldiers who died for France the right to be buried in individual graves.

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Etrépilly National Military Cemetery contains the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Ourcq in September 1914. Created in the aftermath of the fighting, this military cemetery was expanded between 1919 and 1924 to take the bodies exhumed from isolated graves or temporary military cemeteries throughout the area. This cemetery now contains the bodies of 667 French soldiers, 534 of them in two ossuaries. Etrépilly cemetery is typical of military cemeteries from the start of the First World War, and of the way the dead were dealt with by the French and German military authorities. The use of mass graves continued until 1915, when the practice of providing individual graves was quickly adopted on a large scale by both armies.

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Bearing witness to the violence of the fighting that happened in the region, the Maison bleue war cemetery in Cormicy contains, from the First World War, the bodies of 14,431 French soldiers and two British servicemen. Eight French soldiers and two Brits killed during the Second World War are also buried in this war cemetery. This cemetery was rearranged later to hold the bodies of soldiers exhumed from isolated graves or the various temporary cemeteries in the Vesle valley and the national war cemetery of Hermonville. The remains of 6,945 soldiers were placed in two ossuaries.