SEDAN-TORCY FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Ardennes
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.70367, Longitude: 4.9273
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
44578 Private
William E. Barsby
2nd Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
31st July 1918.
Givet German Cemetery Memorial
William E. Barsby
2nd Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
31st July 1918.
Givet German Cemetery Memorial
The Battle of the Lys (Operation Georgette). British and German wounded in a German field hospital in Sedan, April 1918. IWM (Q 55274)
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)
