After the outbreak of the First World War, an attempt was made to form a Polish Legion in France. Poles volunteering to fight alongside the French army were sent to two training centres - in Bayonne and in Rueil. In the end, the formation of a Polish Legion did not take place, and the volunteers were incorporated into the French Foreign Legion. 250 Russians were dispersed in various companies of the 3rd Foreign Regiment. The Polish company was so decimated in the fighting of 1914/1915 that the unit was disbanded in the summer of 1915. The majority of the surviving Bayonians and Ruelians joined the Polish Army in France, formed on 4.06.1917. Polish Army in France, the so-called Blue Army, formed from volunteers from among Polish emigrants from various parts of the world, a large number of them from the United States. Soldiers of Polish nationality incarcerated in prisoner-of-war camps from the German and Austro-Hungarian armies were also recruited. The first trained units of the 1st Rifle Division of the Blue Army took part in battles in Champagne near Reims and Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, as well as in the Vosges. In the spring of 1919. The Blue Army (from 4.10.1918 under the command of General Jozef Haller), numbering over 68,000 soldiers, was transported to Poland and took part in the battles against the Bolsheviks.

The graves of soldiers killed and dead in France were scattered. In 1923, the Polish Auberive War Cemetery was established, to which the remains of 129 Hallerians buried mainly in Champagne (42 of whom were originally buried in Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand) were transferred between 1923 and 1926. One Bayonian was also exhumed and buried in Auberive - Ensign Władysław Szujski, who fell on 29.11.1914 and was buried in Sillery.

From the autumn of 1939, the Polish Army in France was formed again, and the participation of Polish soldiers in the fighting there in 1940 meant that the number of graves in the Polish cemetery increased significantly - the remains of 139 soldiers of the 1st Grenadier Division, the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade, the 2nd Foot Rifle Division and other units (including 7 airmen) who died during the fighting in France in 1940 were transferred to the cemetery. The cemetery also contains the graves of Polish soldiers who died later in German captivity.

A total of 395 soldiers are currently buried in the Polish cemetery, among them 31 of undetermined personalities.

The cemetery is located ca. It occupies the western part of the National Necropolis "Le Bois du Puits", which also includes two other cemeteries for French and German soldiers. This necropolis is surrounded by a common fence; on the road side, the fence is a stone wall. At the entrance gate to the Polish cemetery there is an inscription: "CIMETIERE POLONAIS >>LE BOIS DU PUITS << 1914-1918" (Polish Cemetery "Le Bois du puits").

Wooden crosses were initially placed on the graves, but in the 1930s these were replaced by concrete ones.

In 1928, an obelisk was erected in the Polish cemetery dedicated to the soldiers killed in the First World War. It is located to the right of the entrance to the cemetery. The plaque on it bears a bilingual inscription: "TO POLISH SOLDIERS FALLEN FOR A COMMON CAUSE / IN THE YEARS 1914 - 1918 ON FRENCH SOIL / POLISH COM. OPIEKI - NAD GROBAMI BOHATERÓW - WARSAW 1928 R."

On the second, smaller plaque, the inscription reads: "To the patriots who died for the freedom of the nations / HALLERCZYCY 8-VII-1928".

On 25.07.1954, during a ceremony attended among others by General Jozef Haller, a central monument was unveiled to honour Poles who died in World War I and World War II - a tall obelisk topped with a cross. This monument was erected by the Federation of Polish Defenders of the Fatherland in France, and the inscription on it reads: "FEDERATION OF POL O.O. IN / FRANCE TO THE HEROES / OF THE ARMY OF GEN. HALLER'S ARMY / AND THE REVIVED POLISH ARMY / IN FRANCE IN. 1939 / TO THE FREEDOM OF POLAND / AND FRANCE IN THE FIELDS / OF CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE YEARS 1914-18 AND 1939-45".

In 1991, the Association of Polish Veterans in France renovated the monument, commemorating this act with a second plaque on the central monument. In 2016, the crosses were replaced - this work was carried out by the Office national des combattants et des victimes de guerre (National Office for Veterans and War Victims), the French office under whose care the national necropolises in France are located. On this occasion, the inscription plaques were replaced in 2017. The Polish side was asked to correct the data on the plaques - this work was carried out by the Department for Sites of National Remembrance Abroad of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.