Bayeux War Cemetery
Bayeux War Cemetery
The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. There was little actual fighting in Bayeux although it was the first French town of importance to be liberated.
Nevertheless, Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth Cemetery of the Second World War in France and contains burials brought in from the surrounding districts and from hospitals that were located nearby. It was completed in 1952, and contains 4,144 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 338 of them unidentified. There are also over 500 war graves of other nationalities, the majority German.
