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Located in the place known as "La Ferme de Navarin" on Souain-Perthes-Les-Hurlus, this national cemetery contains, in one ossuary, the bodies of almost 10,000 unidentified soldiers of all nationalities who died during the battles that took place in Champagne between 1914 and 1918. In the days following the war, donations flowed from all over France and on November 4th 1923 the first stone is laid. Less than a year later on September 28th 1924  the unveiling of the Navarin monument took place in the term of office of Field Marshal Joffre and  General Gouraud. Since 1947, according to their own wishes, the corpses of the  Generals Gouraud and Prételat lain among their soldiers.

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Souain National Cemetery - the French Foreign Legion Cemetery contains an ossuary holding the remains of 128 soldiers who died for France during the offensive that started on 25 September 1915.

Established in 1920, the ossuary-monument was built on the initiative of Mr Farnsworth, an American citizen, for the burial of his son. Having joined as a volunteer in the First Foreign Legion Regiment, he was killed, at the age of 24, on 28 September 1915. His body was buried in two mass graves (mass graves 234 – 235 in Forest U).

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Located opposite the ossuary of La Gruerie, the national war cemetery of Saint-Thomas-en-Argonne contains the bodies of 8,173 soldiers gathered from temporary cemeteries or isolated graves in La Biesme and La Gruerie. Created in 1924, this French war cemetery brings together the bodies of 8,085 soldiers who died fighting in Argonne, including 3,324 laid to rest in two ossuaries. From 1941 to 1952, the remains of 88 servicemen killed during the Battle of France were transferred to this site. A monument commemorates the commitment and sacrifice of the men of the 128th Infantry Division.

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Located opposite the Saint-Thomas en Argonne national war cemetery, the La Gruerie cemetery contains, in one ossuary, the bodies gathered from the Gruerie woods. Created in 1923, this mass grave preserves the memory of almost 10,000 unidentified soldiers. Bearing only the inscription "Aux Morts de la Gruerie 1914-1918", a monument, the work of Raoul Eugène Lamourdedieu (1877-1953), stands on this grave. It was inaugurated on 7 July 1929.  Beneath the features of Marianne, this victorious sculpture, in ancient dress, carried in one hand the flame of memory and the other arm raised horizontally as if to indicate the mass grave. Below ground, numerous plaques have been put up, as a symbol of the grief felt by the families of the disappeared soldiers.

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La Harazée National Cemetery is located in Vienne-le-Château in eastern France. It is the resting place of French soldiers who fell on the Argonne battlefields in 1915.

The cemetery was created as soon as fighting began and was set up close to the field hospitals to bury soldiers who had died from their wounds. It was reorganised from 1924 to 1936 to accommodate the remains of soldiers exhumed from military cemeteries and from graves in the woods of La Gruerie and La Harazée. It contains the remains of nearly 1,700 soldiers, including one-third in ossuaries. A French soldier killed during World War II is also buried there.

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The Sainte-Ménehould national cemetery brings together the remains of French soldiers who, despite the treatment administered in the town's many hospitals, died as a result of their injuries. Nearly 5,700 bodies are buried there. Created from 1914 onwards, this cemetery was developed after the war to accommodate bodies exhumed from the temporary military cemeteries in the Bionne area. 5,486 soldiers from the First World War lie in individual graves and 277 in eight ossuaries. This cemetery was developed until 1953 in order to bring together the bodies of soldiers who had fallen in the Marne during the Second World War.

A monument dedicated to the defenders of the Argonne was erected at the end of the cemetery. This obelisk, built in brick and stone, thus preserves the memory of the men of the 10th and 18th army corps (CA).

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Covering 1,459 sqm, Pargny-sur-Saulx National Cemetery holds the remains of 284 French soldiers who were killed during the Battle of the Marne in September 1914. Established in 1919, it was developed up until 1920. The cemetery also holds the remains of three French soldiers and an Australian pilot who were killed during the Second World War. Since 1931, a commemorative monument has stood here, dedicated to the memory of the French soldiers killed in action at Pargny.

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The Maurupt-le-Montois National Cemetery is home to the bodies of 515 French soldiers who died during the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914 and covers an area of 800m². During this battle, 90% of the village was destroyed, like a large number of neighbouring towns. It was commended in the Army Order and received France’s Croix de Guerre on 20 September 1920.

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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.