La Doua French National Cemetery in Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes

About

Get directions Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes, France

Coordinates: 45.78508, 4.88672
Cemetery ID:

Members have Contributed

About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

Photos

2 open photo requests.

La Doua is a suburb of Lyon on the north-eastern side of the town. Lyon (La Doua) French National Cemetery is on the ring road (Boulevard de Ceinture) which encircles the eastern side of Lyon. The Commonwealth War Graves Plot is in the centre of the southern part in Section C to the left of the main entrance.

Originally all the Commonwealth war casualties were buried among French military casualties in Lyon (La Guillotiere) New Communal Cemetery; but the French Government created La Doua Cemetery in 1953 and transferred to it all French Military graves in La Guillotiere New Communal Cemetery; and in other cemeteries in six Departments around Lyon. In response to strong local sentiment and at the particular request of M. Edouard Herriot, at that time President of the French National Assembly, the remains of the Commonwealth graves were also moved to the new cemetery.

There are now 39 Commonwealth World War II casualties commemorated in this site.