Also known as the Memorial to the Missing of the Marne, it commemorates over 3,700[1] British and Irish soldiers with no known grave, who fell in battle in this area in August, September and early October 1914.

The winning design was by the minor war cemetery architect Major George Hartley Goldsmith MC, who had studied under Sir Edwin Lutyens.

On 27 July 2004, the memorial was rededicated during the 90th anniversary commemorations of the battles, in a ceremony attended by Sir John Holmes, the British ambassador to France.

[6] The English inscription says:At this point was built under fire by the Royal Engineers of the 4th Division a floating bridge for the passage of the left wing of the British Expeditionary Force after the Battle of the Marne.

Portions of the division had already crossed by boat at the weir near Luzancy and below the destroyed bridges.The nearby La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Communal Cemetery contains the graves of five British Empire soldiers (including one unidentified) who died in September 1914.

[7] Troop movements in this area during World War I include the 1st Division crossing the river Marne here on 3 September on their way south to Rozoy during the Retreat from Mons.