French war cemetery la Doua

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French war cemetery la Doua

French war cemetery la Doua (Nécropole nationale de la Doua)

Country: France
Department: Rhône
Place: La Doua
Inauguration: 1954

The French war cemetery la Doua (in French: Nécropole nationale de la Doua or Cimetière national militaire de la Doua ) is a war cemetery located in Villeurbanne , on the eastern outskirts of Lyon in France .

The German war dead from the Second World War from the region are buried at the German war cemetery in Dagneux , Département Ain . It was laid out in 1952 and is occupied by around 20,000 German soldiers' graves.

history

In the cemetery there are graves of soldiers or members of the Resistance from France or members of the Allied troops of the First World War or the Allies of the Second World War, all of whom died for France ( Morts pour la France ).

The place was a training center for the French armed forces (Forces armées françaises). During the Second World War, members of the Resistance, especially those imprisoned in Montluc prison , were regularly executed by shooting on the premises by the German occupation forces .

layout

The burial ground E of the cemetery

The cemetery, which was inaugurated in 1954 , is laid out around a memorial site called the “Butte des fusillés”. The cemetery is divided into seven burial fields: A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

The "earth wall of the shot dead"

In September 1945, 77 Résistance bodies who were executed between October 1943 and June 1944 were found at this location. Executions took place here regularly during the German occupation of France. The members of the Resistance died in gunfire on the wall of those who were shot ("Mur des fusillés"). 60 dead were handed over to their families. The remaining 17 dead, some of them unknown ( Inconnu ), were buried on the other side of the earth wall of those shot. In 1995 a memorial plaque was placed on the wall of those who were shot. The name of the 77 killed members of the Resistance is commemorated on it.

  • The wall of the shot dead («Mur des fusillés»).

  • The commemorative plaque on which the 77 members of the Resistance who were shot are named.

  • The graves of the "17" on the other side of the firing wall ("Butte des fusillés").

Reburial

Grave of the unknown partisan (maquis) in Villy-en-Auxois (cemetery E)

A number of soldiers of the First World War and soldiers or members of the Resistance of the Second World War were reburied here from other grave sites:

  • From communal grave sites from the First World War: For example, 221 dead from the communal cemetery of Villeurbanne were transferred to the war cemetery of la Doua. ;
  • From grave sites of the Second World War: These were dead people who were reburied from military cemeteries in the region or from communal burial grounds (where members of the Resistance from the various Maquis groups in the region were buried). Sometimes the note on a tombstone Unknown ( Inconnu ) is provided with a reference to the location of the recovery, e.g. B. the reference to the unknown at Villy-en-Auxois .

Islamic burial ground

Grave field C of the French war cemetery in La Doua.

Graveyard C of the cemetery contains around 200 graves of Islamic soldiers of the First World War .

Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne railway accident

In 1961 the remains of more than 450 soldiers were transferred here. You died in the railway accident at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne on December 12, 1917.

Known buried persons

The graves of Hélène and Victor Basch.

See also

Web links

Commons : French war cemetery la Doua  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Panneau de présentation, à l'entrée de la nécropole nationale de la Doua.
  2. ^ Parcours lyonnais des lieux de la Résistance. In: lepoint.fr. Le Point , November 29, 2002, accessed April 15, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Ramon Brunelière: Catastrophe ferroviaire de Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (Savoie): 457 morts dont 455 soldiers de retour du front d'Italie - PDF. (PDF; 495 kB) (No longer available online.) In: memorial-genweb.org. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011 ; Retrieved April 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.memorial-genweb.org
  4. ↑ Pierre Bernheim

Coordinates: 45 ° 47 ′ 4.2 "  N , 4 ° 53 ′ 11.4"  E