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Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery CWGC

France / Basse-Normandie / Reviers /
 memorial, Second World War 1939-1945, war memorial, war cemetery

Bény-sur-Mer was created as a permanent resting place for Canadian soldiers who had been temporairly interred in smaller plots close to where they fell. As is usual for war cemeteries or monuments, France granted Canada a perpetual concession to the land occupied by the cemetery. The graves contain soldiers from the Canadian 3rd Division and 15 Airmen killed in the Battle of Normandy. The cemetery also includes four British graves and one French grave, for a total of 2049 markers.
Due to deteriation from the weather the Commonwealth War Grave Commission are going to replace all the gravestones in within 3 years.

www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2004...
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Coordinates:   49°18'11"N   -0°27'2"E
This article was last modified 12 years ago