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French War Cemetery la Doua

This war cemetery contains the graves of 2,723 French soldiers and resistance members who died in the Second World War. It also the last burial site of 39 Commonwealth soldiers and 62 Polish soldiers who were killed in WW2. There are also 3,622 French WW1 graves, 5 graves from the Indochina War, 7 graves from the war in Algeria and one grave from Lenabon on this cemetery.

At the French National Cemetery La Doua in Lyon is this grave memorial between the war graves of the victims who died by execution in the Second World War.

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