Le Mont-Kemmel French Military Cemetery
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The cemetery was created in 1922 and contains a total of 5,237 unknown French soldiers and 57 identified French soldiers, all commemorated in an ossuary. There are no individual grave markers in this cemetery.
The cemetery was redeveloped in 1924 and 1932, when the unknown dead previously buried in Saint-Charles-de-Potyze French military cemetery were reinterred here. In the years 1961-1962 and 1986-1989 the cemetery was renovated.
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The French flag flies on the left of the ossuary memorial, the Belgian flag flies on the right.
The cemetery is 2,050 square metres in size.
Location of Le Mont-Kemmel Cemetery
The ossuary is located on the western slope of the Kemmelberg (Mont Kemmel) on the lane leading to/from the summit.
Useful Links
For information about the French cemetery from where the unidentified were exhumed and brought to Le Mont-Kemmel go to Saint-Charles-de-Potyze French Military CemeteryFind out more about the organization which looks after the WWI French military graves at:
Le Ministère des PensionsAcknowledgements
Text translated from Atlas des Nécropoles Nationales