Saint-Charles-de-Potyze French Military Cemetery, Belgium
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The cemetery was created during the First World War and redeveloped in 1920, 1922 and from 1925-1929, when French soldiers were exhumed and brought here as a final resting place from the Flanders Front, the Yser river region and the Belgian coast.
There are 3,547 named military dead including the remains of 609 soldiers in the ossuary.
After the Great War many of the the unidentified French soldiers were exhumed and reinterred in the ossuary at Le Mont-Kemmel.
The cemetery is 29,900 square metres in size. The French national flag flies in the centre of the cemetery.
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Location of Saint-Charles-de-Potyze Cemetery
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This French military cemetery is located on the east side of the N332 Potijze-Zonnebeke road, approximately 1.5 kilometres from Potijze village.
Location
The cemetery is located on the Zonnebekesweg to the east of Ieper.
Related Topics
Le Mont Kemmel French Cemetery
For information about Le Mont-Kemmel French military ossuary on the Kemmelberg south of Ieper go to:
le Mont-Kemmel French Military Cemetery
Find out more about the organization which looks after the WWI French military graves at:
Cemeteries and Memorials in the Ypres Salient
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For a comprehensive listing with map locations for British, French, Belgian, German and American cemeteries or monuments in the Ypres Salient see our listings at:
Cemeteries in the Ypres Salient
Monuments and Memorials in the Ypres Salient
Acknowledgements
Text translated from Atlas des Nécropoles Nationales