Country: France

Locality: Calvados

Identified Casualties: 114

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Cemetery Location

From Bayeux take the N13 towards Caen. After about 12 kilometres turn left onto the D217, and the village of Secqueville will be found about 2 kilometres to the north. Turn right in the village, and after a few hundred metres take the track to the left, signposted Farringdon Way. The War Cemetery will be found in open fields on the left hand side.

The track to the cemetery is partially metalled, and passable in both dry and wet weather, with a degree of care. There is parking in front of the cemetery, and just enough space to turn around on the track.

Cemetery Information

The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery is a battlefield cemetery, containing the graves of men killed in the advance to Caen early in July and in the subsequent fighting up to the end of that month. The cemetery contains 99 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and 18 German burials.

WW2 Graves

All of the dead buried here in this battlefield cemetery, which has remained unchanged since 1944, were killed in July 1944. They were mostly from the 15th (Scottish) and 43rd (Wessex) Divisions.

The breakdown of graves is:

British - 98
Unknown British - 1
German - 18

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