Historical Information (Source: Volksbund)

14 694 deutsche Kriegstote Erster Weltkrieg

The original German military cemetery Sissonne was laid out on the site of a military training area in 1915 by the responsible German stage inspection. The fallen soldiers from 12 (Saxon) army corps from the fighting in summer 1914 found their final resting place here. This was followed by soldiers from the stage service who died from their wounds or who died from illness or accidents. Finally, the troops embed their fallen from the defensive battles of autumn 1918 until the Germans evacuated them. The fallen opponents were also buried in special sections of the cemetery. At the end of 1919, the French military authorities relocated the German and British graves from the area of ​​the training area on its edge. At the same time, the German dead, who were still lying in temporary graves within a radius of 28 kilometers, were transferred to this cemetery. Those resting here belonged to troops whose home garrisons were in almost all countries of the former German Reich.