Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery

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The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery in France containing Canadian and British soldiers who were killed during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.

944 members of the Allied Armed Forces are interred at Dieppe, of which 707 are Canadian.

The cemetery is unique in that it was created by the occupying Germans, as the Allied raid was a disaster and many dead were forced to be left behind in enemy territory. The headstones have been placed back to back in long double rows, typical of German burials but unlike any other Commonwealth war cemetery.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Canadian_War_Cemetery
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Coordinates:   49°53'45"N   1°4'4"E
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