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Although listing the names of dead soldiers on memorials had started with the Boer Wars, this practice was only systematically adopted after World War I, with the establishment of the Imperial War Graves Commission, which was later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Due to the rapid movement of forces in the early stages of the war ...
Total dead: 996,000 including military losses, 260,000 with the Serbian forces, 80,000 with the Austro-Hungarian forces, 13,000 with Montenegrin forces and POW deaths in captivity of 93,000. Civilian dead were as follows due to famine and disease: 400,000, killed in military operations: 120,000 and 30,000 dead in Austrian prisons or executed. [111]
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial (French pronunciation: [waz ɛːn]) is an American military cemetery in northern France.Plots A through D contain the graves of 6,013 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I, 597 of which were not identified, as well as a monument for 241 Americans who were missing in action during battles in the same area and ...
The missing men were from the Tyneside Scottish battalion and were among 22 to die in a raid in 1917.
The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) [1] is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. It is located in Douaumont-Vaux , France , within the Verdun battlefield, and immediately next to the Fleury-devant-Douaumont National Necropolis . [ 2 ]
The German military cemetery in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France, contains the graves of 1412 German and four French soldiers who died in World War I. The cemetery was opened by the German Army in August 1914 after heavy fighting in the area. A number of military hospitals were set up in the area all of which required a suitable burial ground.
This striking memorial is completely white in colour and is dedicated to the 70,000 Muslim soldiers who died whilst fighting for France at Verdun. It was inaugurated on 25 June 2006, the ceremony being led by Jacques Chirac, Michèle Alliot-Marie , the Minister of Defence, Hamlaoui Mekachera, the Secretary of State for Veteran soldiers, Jean ...
Courbesseaux in Meurthe-et-Moselle was the scene of fighting on 25 August 1914, and was totally destroyed during the war. The military cemetery here holds the bodies of 2,679 soldiers, many of whom had died at Grand-Couronné. 1,703 of the dead could not be identified and their remains lie in 2 ossuaries. There are two monuments in the cemetery.