La Ferme de Suippes National Cemetery, Military cemetery in Suippes, France.
La Ferme de Suippes National Cemetery is a French military cemetery on RD 77 just outside Suippes, in the Marne. Its 4.77 hectares hold 9,361 bodies: 8,833 in individual graves and 528 in two ossuaries. A white stone gateway with two capped pillars, each bearing a gold cross above a green palm, opens onto a lawn of small white crosses.
Created in 1932 to gather bodies exhumed from the former Champagne front, the cemetery was laid out between 1932 and 1935. From 1956 to 1959 it received 1,932 French soldiers killed in World War II, exhumed from military cemeteries in the Marne, Haute-Marne, Aube and Yonne. In 1964 remains were transferred here from the military section of Épernay's communal cemetery.
The gateway's two white pillars each carry a small gold cross above a downward-pointing green palm, framing a dark green metal gate with vertical bars and circular motifs. Beyond it, rows of small white crosses mark the graves, including two ossuaries holding 528 soldiers and the graves of three Russian and one Belgian soldier.
The cemetery lies on RD 77 at the exit of Suippes toward Châlons-en-Champagne, not southwest of the town. It is open daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, except December 25 and January 1. The 4.77-hectare grounds are entered through a white stone gateway with two capped pillars bearing gold crosses above green palm motifs and a dark green metal gate.
The cemetery holds three Russian soldiers and one Belgian soldier among 9,361 French graves. Its two ossuaries contain the remains of 528 soldiers who could not be identified individually, gathered from the former Champagne front.
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