Cimetière de la 28e brigade-La ferme des Wacques et les deux monuments des 44e et 60e régiments d'infanterie, nécropole nationale.

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History

The cemetery of the 28th brigade, La ferme des Wacques, and the two monuments of the 44th and 60th infantry regiments, national necropolis, at Souain-Perthes-Les-Hurlus presents a rarity because of the circular plan of the cemetery of the 28th brigade, La ferme des Wacques, and the precocity of the testimony of the burial of combatants of the First World War. This necropolis has an area of 3,340 m². The bodies of 147 French military personnel killed during the Great War are interred there. The project for this monument is the work of Father Doncoeur military chaplain of the 35th and 42nd infantry regiments of Belfort. The site was arranged shortly after the war by veterans of the 28th brigade, Austrian prisoners of war and Indochinese workers. It was inaugurated on 25 September 1919, just four years after the 1915 offensive. Two circles of stone steles surround the calvary of the ferme des Wacques. The site has a total of 179 steles. On the calvary can be read the following inscription: Calvary erected by R. P. Doncoeur S. J. chaplain of the 28th Brigade May the young generations remember the sacrifice of their elders. (https://www.guerre1914-1918.fr/necropole-nationale-de-la-28eme-brigade-a-souain-perthes-les-hurlus-51-marne/)