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ROSSIGNOL ORÉE DE LA FORÊT FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY

Luxembourg

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates: 49°43'48.2"N 5°28'53.3"E

Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information

Rossignol is a small village located in the province of Luxembourg in Belgium. The cemetery is located North of the village on the Rue de Neufchâteau. Just before you enter the forest turn left and the cemetery is on the left hand side of the Rue de la Chausée Romaine.

Historical Information

Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery contains a number of French war graves from World War I.

During the Battle of Rossignol, part of the Battle of the Borders, there was a confrontation in this area on August 22, 1914 between the French colonial troops and two German infantry divisions in which thousands of soldiers died.
Most soldiers were buried after the battle at the place where they fell.

In 1917, the Germans decided to create military cemeteries to regroup the thousands of German and French soldiers who fell during the battle of Rossignol.

After the war, many French families repatriated the bodies to their place of origin.

The German remains were grouped in one cemetery, that of Saint-Vincent.

The French government also regrouped several smaller cemeteries and two mass graves were dug in 1923 for this purpose.

The necropolis was inspired by the floor plan of a church and was designed as a kind of natural cathedral. The trees symbolized columns that supported the foliage of the beeches. Today these trees are gone after the 1989 storm.

The main monument was designed by the architects Henri Lacoste and Louis Madeline.

In the centre of the cemetery is a memorial stone for the French writer Ernest Psichari, who was killed here.

​Total World War One French Burials 2,710 of which 2,379 are buried in two ossuaries.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
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Image above © Nicholas Philpot

3rd French Colonial Monument

Located on the junction outside of the cemetery

​Images © Johan Pauwels

Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery
Rossignol-Orée de la Forêt French Military Cemetery

Nearby French Military Cemetery
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ROSSIGNOL PLATEAU FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY


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