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 / 49.2902; -0.3771 near  Douvres-la-Délivrande, Calvados, France
Designed by	Philip D. Hepworth
Total burials	1,123
Unknowns	1
Burials by nation
United Kingdom: 927 Canada: 11 Australia: 3 Poland: 1 Germany: 180
Burials by war
World War II
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]

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".

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  Entrance to the war cemetery
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  Sacrificial cross in the cemetery
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  Double headstone
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  Graves and cross

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

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

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

• La Délivrande War Cemetery at Find a Grave