Historical Information 

Built near a former first-aid post, Soupir 1 National Cemetery holds the remains of French soldiers killed in the battles of Chemin des Dames between 1914 and 1918. Laid to rest here are the bodies of 7 806 French soldiers who died in the First World War, including 2 822 in three ossuaries and 266 in four mass graves exhumed from the sites of Vieil-Arcy, Athies-sous-Laon, Glennes and Pargny-Filain. One Belgian and one Russian lie alongside the French servicemen. In view of the growing number of bodies exhumed on the Chemin des Dames battlefield, in 1934 the military authorities had a second cemetery, Soupir 2, built opposite this one.

1 Belgian war grave: Polydore HARDYNS