Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
| Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery | |
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| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
The Cross of Sacrifice and war graves in Bény-sur-Mer Cemetery
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| Used for those deceased 1944 | |
| Established | 1944 |
| Location | near Reviers, Calvados_(department), France |
| Designed by | Philip Hepworth |
| Total burials | 2,048 |
| Unknown burials | 19 |
| Burials by nation | |
| Burials by war | |
| Statistics source: WWII Battlefields | |
The Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery containing predominantly Canadian soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. It is located in and named after Bény-sur-Mer in the Calvados department, near Caen in lower Normandy. As is typical of war cemeteries in France, the grounds are beautifully landscaped and immaculately kept. Contained within the cemetery is a Cross of Sacrifice, a piece of architecture typical of memorials designed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Canadian soldiers killed later in the Battle of Normandy are buried south east of Caen in the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery located in Cintheaux.
Bény-sur-Mer was created as a permanent resting place for Canadian soldiers who had been temporarily 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 3rd Canadian Division and 15 airmen killed during the Battle of Normandy.
The cemetery also includes three British graves and one French grave, for a total of 2048 markers. The French grave belongs to a French resistance soldier named R. Guenard who fought and died alongside the Canadians and who had no known relatives. His marker is the grey cross visible in the lower left of the panoramic view below and is inscribed "Mort pour la France- 19-7-1944".
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