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Nécropole nationale de Dompierre-Becquincourt

The national necropolis of Dompierre-Becquincourt is a French military cemetery from the Great War and was created in 1920. It has an area of ​​2.09 ha.  In 1935 and 1936, the bodies from various municipal cemeteries in the Somme department were brought together there. From 1948 to 1985, the bodies of French soldiers found incidentally on the former battlefields of the Somme were also buried there.

This French military cemetery from the First World War was created in 1920. Covering an area of ​​2 ha, it contains 7,034 graves, 5,363 in individual graves and 1,641 in four ossuaries2. Among the graves are many graves of colonial soldiers, a Belgian grave and a Russian one.

At the entrance to the cemetery, there is a monument known as the Italians with this epitaph: “To our French friends, who died for their country, on behalf of the Italians living in Dompierre”.

There is also the grave of a French soldier killed during the Second World War.