The Mémorial des guerres en Indochine (Indochina War Memorial) is located in the municipality of Fréjus, Gallieni sector, in the Var department.
At the end of the First Indochina War thousands of French soldiers and civilians remained buried in cemeteries in North and South Vietnam.
The first set of remains of 833 French soldiers in ten coffins were transported from Ho Chi Minh City via Bangkok to Paris, where they were received on 10 October 1986 by Prime Minister of France Jacques Chirac.
[3] Designed by architect Bernard Desmoulin, the memorial is located on 23,403m2 of land, forming part of a circular promenade 110m in diameter, built in concrete and resting on stilts.
The necropolis is organized on two levels, at the foot of the circular promenade: Rows of vaults contain the bones of the 17,188 soldiers identified and repatriated from Vietnam.