Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery

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File:Neuilly-sur-Seine cimetière 2.jpg
View of an alley of the old cemetery.

The Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery in the Hauts-de-Seine département of France are in the western suburbs of Paris, between Paris and La Défense.

The first is called cimetière ancien (Old Cemetery) and is to be found in Neuilly; the second (New Cemetery) is to be found in Nanterre, near La Défense and adjacent to Paris La Défense Arena, but belongs to Neuilly. It is called cimetière nouveau.

Notable interments

Old Cemetery

The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave, of a British Red Cross Society officer of World War I.[3]

New Cemetery

The cemetery contains 33 Commonwealth war graves, of 32 service personnel from World War I and one from World War II,[4] as well as an American Legion memorial bearing the names of 250 Americans.

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