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SEDAN-TORCY FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
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​Ardennes

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.70367, Longitude: 4.9273

Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery

​Location Information

Sedan is a town on the River Meuse in the Department of the Ardennes, close to the Forest of the Ardennes, and some 24 kilometres south-east of Charleville-Mezieres. Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery adjoins the cemetery at Torcy on the west side of the town. The cemetery is situated on the Chemin de Glaire. The Commonwealth graves are in Plot XX.


Historical Information

Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery was made in 1923. 

The cemetery contains 45 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, nine of which are unidentified. The graves came from the German Cemeteries of CARIGNAN; LA CACHETTE, NOUZON; LIART; MAUBERT-FONTAINE; and WALCOURT (NAMUR). Special memorials commemorate 14 casualties buried in GIVET GERMAN CEMETERY and MAUBERT-FONTAINE GERMAN CEMETERY whose graves could not be found. Also buried in the cemetery are six Commonwealth airmen of the Second World War, two of whom are unidentified.

Total Burials: 51.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 36.

World War One Unidentified Casualties: 9.

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 4.

World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 2.

French World War One Casualties: 2,859 of which 2,104 in mass grave.

French World War Two Casualties: 7. 

Other World War One Nationalities: Russia 9, Belgium 1. Total 10.

Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Picture
44578 Private
William E. Barsby
2nd Bn. 
Lincolnshire Regiment
31st July 1918.
Givet German Cemetery Memorial







Picture
37901 Flight Lieutenant
Harold Courtenay Sammels
105 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force
14th May 1940, aged 24.
Plot 20. Grave 764A (Coll)


Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sammels, of North End, Portsmouth.

His headstone bears the inscription "Much Loved And Missed By All The Family"

"Photograph supplied by Aircrew Remembered"



Picture
The Battle of the Lys (Operation Georgette). British and German wounded in a German field hospital in Sedan, April 1918. IWM (Q 55274)
Picture
Group of British soldiers who were prisoners at Noame in Belgium listening to a young citizen of Sedan sounding "La Victoire" on the bugle. Sedan, 16 November 1918. IWM (Q 49664)

La Nécropole Nationale de Torcy à Sedan

​All images © Johan Pauwels

Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery
Sedan-Torcy French National Cemetery

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