Banneville la Campagne War Cemetery CWGC
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Second World War 1939-1945, war cemetery
The cemetery contains 2,170 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 140 of them unidentified, and five Polish graves.For the most part, the men buried here were killed in the fighting from the second week of July 1944, when Caen was captured, to the last week in August 1944.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 49°10'30"N -0°13'45"E
- Drop zone K 6.6 km
- Hillman Fortress 12 km
- Colleville-Montgomery Beach 14 km
- Douvres-la-Délivrande 20 km
- Sword Beach 21 km
- Juno Beach (Nan Sector) 25 km
- Sainte-Croix ALG 27 km
- Arromanches-les-Bains - Site of the Mulberry Harbour 35 km
- Gold Beach 35 km
- Remains of Mulberry harbour breakwaters "Phoenix" 36 km