La Délivrande War Cemetery
| La Délivrande war cemetery | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
 La Délivrande war cemetery | |
| Used for those deceased 1944 | |
| Established | 1944 |
| Location | 49°17′25″N 0°22′38″W / 49.2902°N 0.3771°W near Douvres-la-Délivrande, Calvados, France |
| Designed by | Philip D. Hepworth |
| Total burials | 1,123 |
Unknowns | 1 |
| Burials by nation | |
| Burials by war | |
| Statistics source: CWGC | |
La Délivrande war cemetery is a Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located 14 km (8.7 mi) north of Caen, Normandy. The cemetery contains 943 commonwealth war graves and 180 German war graves.[1]
History
[edit]The majority of the soldiers interred in the cemetery were killed on D-Day, 6 June 1944 and the following weeks as the Allies advanced south towards Caen. There are a number of burials of soldiers killed on Sword Beach – especially from the sectors Oboe and Peter.
The cemetery has a number of double headstones marked with "BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT".
Photographs
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Entrance to the war cemetery -
Sacrificial cross in the cemetery -
Double headstone -
Graves and cross
Location
[edit]The cemetery is 14 km north of Caen on the D.7.
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Delivrande War Cemetery.
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- UK National Inventory of War Memorials
- German War Graves Commission
- List of military cemeteries in Normandy
References
[edit]- ^ "La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres". www.cwgc.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Shilleto, Carl, and Tolhurst, Mike (2008). "A Traveler’s Guide to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy". Northampton, Mass.: Interlink. ISBN 1566565553
