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Italy: 2. South Africa: 1. Burials by war. World War II. Statistics source: WWII Battlefields. The Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Bayeux, Normandy. [1] The cemetery contains 4,648 burials, mostly from the Invasion of Normandy. Opposite this cemetery stands the Bayeux ...
Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery contains 1015 Commonwealth graves (56 unidentified). Jerusalem War Cemetery is the smallest in Normandy containing 47 British, one Czech and one unidentified grave. La Délivrande War Cemetery contains 942 Allied soldiers' graves and 180 German graves. Ranville War Cemetery contains 2,235 Commonwealth burials of ...
Ranville War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Ranville, 10 km (6.2 mi) north east of Caen, Normandy. The cemetery contains predominantly British soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy. A large proportion of those interred were members of the British 6th Airborne ...
The Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial is located in Saint-James, Normandy, France, near the northeastern edge of Brittany. It contains the remains of 4,410 of World War II American soldiers, most of whom died in the Normandy and Brittany campaigns of 1944. Along the retaining wall of the memorial terrace are inscribed the names of 498 of ...
The cemetery. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Étaples Military Cemetery is the largest CWGC cemetery in France, [1] and contains the remains of soldiers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Germany. [2] The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has only published the number of Commonwealth and German ...
The British Normandy Memorial is a war memorial near the village of Ver-sur-Mer in Normandy, France. It was unveiled on 6 June 2021, the 77th anniversary of D-Day, and it is dedicated to soldiers who died under British command during the Normandy landings. [a] The memorial records the names of 22,442 people from more than 30 countries under ...
The Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I located between the communes of Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt in the département of Pas-de-Calais, France. It lies on the D939 east of Arras.
381. Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery is a military cemetery in Arques-la-Bataille near Dieppe, France, that contains the graves of nearly 400 servicemen of the British Empire in the First World War. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was designed by John Reginald Truelove.