Located in Verdun, Faubourg-Pavé National Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the battles in Verdun between 1914 and 1918 and of soldiers that fought in the Second World War. Established during the First World War, the cemetery was developed from 1919 to 1926 and redesigned in 1965 to receive the bodies of other soldiers who had originally been buried in cemeteries at Belrupt, the Chevert barracks and Eix-Abaucourt, or were found on the battlefield. From the First World War, over 5,000 French soldiers, a Chinese worker, an Indochinese man, a Luxembourg man and a Romanian are buried here in individual graves or in the ossuaries. From the Second World War, over 600 French, seven British, one Belgian and one Polish soldier are buried here.

In the middle of the cemetery are the graves of the seven unknown soldiers who were kept in Verdun after the ceremony held in the underground citadel in 1920 to choose the Unknown Soldier. The eighth soldier, chosen by Auguste Thin, lies ever since under the arch of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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The national war cemetery of Fontaine-Routhon contains the graves of 1,067 French soldiers and one Russian, who died in the fighting that took place there, all throughout the Great War, in the Verdun sector. Created in 1916 during the Battle of Verdun, it was established between 1917 and 1919 to gather together the remains of soldiers initially buried in the temporary military cemeteries of Souhesmes and Nixéville.

The Lemmes-Vadelaincourt National Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the battles of Verdun from 1916 to 1918. Established in 1916, the cemetery was redeveloped successively in 1920, 1934 and 1970 to bury other bodies of soldiers who died in this sector. The cemetery contains over 1,700 French and two Russian soldiers’ bodies from WWI.

This cemetery is associated with an important military hospital in Vadelaincourt where some of the wounded from the Battle of Verdun were treated in 1916.

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The French war cemetery of Bar-le-Duc holds the remains of 3,183 soldiers, 63 in ossuaries, who died for France during the battles of Verdun in 1914 to 1918, as well as seven British soldiers.

Created in 1914 this cemetery received bodies exhumed from military cemeteries in the Brionne region up until 1931.

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The national necropolis of Rembercourt-aux-Pots contains the graves of 5,510 Frenchmen who died in the battles of Vaux-Marie and behind the front lines of Verdun between 1914 and 1918. Four Russians are also laid to rest here. Two ossuaries contain almost 3,400 bodies.

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The national war cemetery of Pierrepont contains the remains of soldiers who died for France in the Battle of the Frontiers in August 1914. Created in 1920, it bears witness to the extreme violence of the battles on 22 and 23 August 1914 around Pierrepont, which were among the bloodiest of the Great War. Established successively in 1920-1921, then in 1932-1936 to bring together the bodies exhumed from temporary military cemeteries in the region of Longwy and the Crusnes, Spincourt, the Othain and the Loison, this national war cemetery contains the remains of 3,758 French soldiers, 1,416 of which are in individual graves. The remains of 2,342 servicemen were placed in two ossuaries. Alongside them rest the bodies of 493 Russian, 141 Belgian, 2 British and 1 Romanian servicemen.

Several soldiers killed during World War II, including 20 French, 55 Soviet and 1 Czech, are buried at this site.

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Thionville National Cemetery was built during the First World War by the German Army. It contains the graves of 787 German soldiers, 86 of whom are buried in an ossuary, 692 Russians (including 1 civilian worker), 161 French (including one from Alsace-Lorraine and a civilian victim, Justin Bray, charged with revealing the position of a German sentry and killed by firing squad on 28 August 1914 - Grave n° 119), three British, three Luxembourgers (civilian victims killed on 16 July 1918) and two Belgians. This cemetery, which was further developed in 1924, houses a memorial to the 1914-1918 War.

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Established in 1920, the national war cemetery of Brieulles-sur-Meuse contains the remains of soldiers initially buried in the numerous temporary military cemeteries such as those of Consenvoye, Damvillers, Dun-sur-Meuse, Lissey, Montmédy, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, and Stenay. This war cemetery brings together 2,572 bodies, 1,520 of which were placed in two ossuaries. From the First World War, there are the remains of 2,389 French, 123 Russian, 35 Belgian and one British soldier, as well as 24 French servicemen including an unknown soldier who died during the fighting in May to June 1940.

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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.

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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.