Champigny St.André German Cemetery

The Champigny St.André German War Cemetery contains 19,809 graves from the Second World War. There is also a mass grave containing 816 remains, of these 303 are identified.

The cemetery originated from the battles in August 1944 when the Allies were advancing towards Paris and the Seine. The American Graves Services buried both their own and German soldiers on the site in two separate grave sites. After the war the American graves were moved to American Normandy Cemetery near St Laurent-sur-Mer. The remaining German cemetery was later extended by the French with the reburial of German graves from field graves and small grave sites.