Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery
Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery | |
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
For Operation Overlord | |
Established | 1944 |
Location | 49°14′10″N 0°23′08″W / 49.2362°N 0.3855°W near Cambes-en-Plaine, Calvados, France |
Designed by | Philip D. Hepworth |
Total burials | 224 |
Unknowns | 1 |
Burials by nation | |
United Kingdom: 224 | |
Burials by war | |
Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. |
Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located seven km northwest of Caen, Normandy. The cemetery contains 224 graves of which one is unidentified.[1]
History
[edit]Following the Allied landings on D-Day, elements of the East Riding Yeomanry, supporting the British 3rd Infantry Division pushed through to the northern outskirts of Cambes-en-Plaine on 9 June 1944. A defensive German line here stopped the advance on Caen. A large number of burials date to between the 8 and 12 July 1944, during Operation Charnwood, the final attack on Caen. Over half of the burials in the graveyard are from soldiers in the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division.
Location
[edit]The cemetery is located in the commune of Cambes-en-Plaine, in the Calvados department of Normandy, on the Rue du Mesnil Ricard (D.79B).
Photographs
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Entrance to the war cemetery
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Sacrificial cross in the cemetery
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Brouay war cemetery
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Graves of 59th (Staffordshire) Division soldiers
See also
[edit]- American Battle Monuments Commission
- UK National Inventory of War Memorials
- German War Graves Commission
- List of military cemeteries in Normandy
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Shilleto, Carl, and Tolhurst, Mike (2008). A Traveler's Guide to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. Northampton, Mass.: Interlink. ISBN 1566565553
External links
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