Country: France

Locality: Calvados

Identified Casualties: 1036

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Cemetery Location

The cemetery can easily be reached from Bayeux by taking the D6, travelling south-east. After about 13 kilometers, and after passing through Tilly-sur-Seulles, turn right (westwards) at Juvigny onto the main road (the D9) that runs from Caen towards Caumont l'Evente. The cemetery will be found after a few hundred metres on the right hand side on rising ground. There is a lay-by to park in at the side of the road.

Cemetery Information

Most of the burials were brought into this cemetery from the surrounding district, where there was much heavy fighting through June and July 1944, as the British forces tried to press south from Bayeux and swing round to the south of Caen. There are now 1015 1939-45 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these 56 are unidentified. Also commemorated here are 132 Foreign Nationals and 1 non-world war casualty.

WW2 Graves

Constructed on two levels, the initial graves in Plot 1, rows A and B, on the left are of CANLOAN officers. These were Canadians commissioned into the Canadian Army and attached to British units in the field. There were large numbers of them in Normandy, particularly as junior officer casualties were high after the landings. Plot 3 has a large number of tank crews in it, in Plot 8, rows A and B, are numerous burials from the Scots Guards killed on the 30th July 1944 fighting. Plot 8, Rows G, H and I, and Plot 10, rows E, F, G, all contain casualties from the Duke of Wellington Regiment (West Riding) killed on 18th June and 16th-18th July 1944.

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