Vermandovillers German War Cemetery in Vermandovillers, Picardie

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Vermandovillers, Departement de la Somme, Picardie 80789 France

Coordinates: 49.85605, 2.78152
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Final resting place of 22632 German dead from World War I. It is the largest German military cemetery in France. Originally the resting place of a few dead from the early battles in 1914, most of the solders buried here died in the summer fighting in 1916 as well as the battle for Amiens in March 1918. The cemetery was used until the Allied counterattack in August 1918. After the war, as more bodies were found on the battlefield, they were moved here, a work which continues to this day. Starting in 1926, some work was done to beautify the cemetery and mark the graves with wooden crosses, limited by the funds available and by the start of World War II. In 1966, treaties allowed the German War Graves Commission to take up its work once again, though preliminary work had begun in 1964 by a team of students from Nordrhein-Westfalen. The wooden crosses were replaced with permanent steel markers, excepting for the 32 soldiers of Jewish faith, where a rounded stone marker was used. 9455 soldiers are buried in single graves, of which 379 remain unknown. The 13200 remaining dead were buried in 15 mass graves marked with stone crosses.