VIC-SUR-AISNE FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
(La Nécropole Nationale de Vic-sur-Aisne)
Aisne
France
GPS Coordinates: 49°24'32.4"N 3°06'31.1"E
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Vic-sur-Aisne is a small village in the Aisne region of France. The French National Cemetery is located to the North of the village on the D2.
Historical Information
La Nécropole Nationale de Vic-sur-Aisne was built in 1921 and was further developed up until 1935 to make room for exhumed bodies from the military cemeteries to the west of Soissons.
Total Burials: 3,053.
World War One Casualties: France 3,046.
World War Two Casualties: France 7.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Ma Yi Pao born in 1894 in Yunnan, China, died September 2, 1918 in Jaulzy.
Mia Yi Pao, who remains unknown, has his name engraved in the stone of the national necropolis of Vic-sur-Aisne. His military record states that he "Died for France on September 2, 1918, from his wounds, in the Jaulzy ambulance, in the Oise. »
Of Muslim religion, Mia Yi Pao had left his country, then in full political instability (period known as the Lords of the War), to escape the religious persecutions of which he was the victim. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion at the age of 24 and found himself deployed with his brothers in arms in the trenches.
If a hundred Chinese workers have been recognised as "dead for France", Mia Yi Pao is the only fighter immortalized as such.
Image © Johan Pauwels
