Historical Information (Source: Volksbund)

1,907 German war dead  First World War and 1 dead of the k.u.k. Austro-Hungarian Army

The German military cemetery Fourdrain was created as a collective cemetery by the French military authorities. They relocated around 1,000 German war dead from 18 adjacent community areas as well as dead from the cemetery in the suburb of La Bovette. After the German advance in the late summer of 1914, several hospitals were set up in Fourdrain, in which many of the seriously wounded died from the injuries they had suffered in the fighting on Chemin-des-Dames and in the Soissons-St. Quentin in 1915 and 1917 as well as in the defensive and retreat battles in the summer and autumn of 1918. There were also soldiers who died of illness or as a result of accidents. Those resting here belonged to troops whose home garrisons were in East and West Prussia, Posen, Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia, Hesse, Baden, Bavaria, Lorraine, Westphalia and the Rhineland as well as in the Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck.