Merles sur-Loison Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Merles-sur-Loison, Lorraine

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Merles sur-Loison Soldatenfriedhof is situated on the northern side of the village. The German cemetery is just behind the local Communal Cemetery. Almost all of those buried here are from the 21st and 25th Infantry Divisions. The majority of those buried here were garrisoned in Hesse but there are others from Silesia, Brandenburg, Hanover, Westphalia, East and West Prussia, Baden and Bavaria.
There are 1499 German war dead within the cemetery. 1302 have individual graves and of these 19 are unknown (Unbekannt).

There is also a mass grave for 197 soldiers of whom only 13 are known by name.