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La Délivrande War Cemetery

Coordinates: 49°17′25″N 0°22′38″W / 49.2902°N 0.3771°W / 49.2902; -0.3771
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La Délivrande war cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
La Délivrande war cemetery
Used for those deceased 1944
Established1944
Location49°17′25″N 0°22′38″W / 49.2902°N 0.3771°W / 49.2902; -0.3771
near 
Designed byPhilip D. Hepworth
Total burials1,123
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

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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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Location

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The cemetery is 14 km north of Caen on the D.7.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres". www.cwgc.org.

Further reading

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  • Shilleto, Carl, and Tolhurst, Mike (2008). "A Traveler’s Guide to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy". Northampton, Mass.: Interlink. ISBN 1566565553
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