Historical Information (Source: Volksbund)

1095 German war dead First World War - 1739 fallen soldiers rest on the French burial ground.

Of the 1,095 German casualties, 707 rest in individual graves; four remained unnamed. In the two communal graves with 388 victims, 90 are known by name.  The German military cemetery at Thiescourt was laid out by the French military authorities in January 1920 as a joint Franco-German war cemetery.  The location was chosen after a common grave with 50 German and French soldiers who had died was found in this area by the German troops. The French authorities buried more dead from numerous temporary grave sites in 16 surrounding districts. A small proportion of those buried here lost their lives during the fighting between Roye and Noyon in mid-September 1914. Another part fell or died from wounds as a result of the fighting in spring 1915 and the trench warfare in 1915 - early 1918.

The vast majority of the dead fell victim to the fighting in 1918, especially in the "Battle of Noyon" in June and the defensive battles on the Matz in August.