Canadian cemetery of Bény-sur-Mer, Normandy
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. The Cemetery 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. the Canadian forces cemetery in the heart of Normandy, overlooks the beaches of Juno where the Canadian 3rd Division and the 2nd Armoured Brigade landed on June 6, 1944. This site holds the graves of 2048 mostly Canadian soldiers. "The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Many of those buried in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery were men of the 3rd Canadian Division who died either on 6 June or during the early days of the advance towards Caen, when the Division engaged a German battle group formed from the 716th Division and the 21st Panzer Division. The cemetery contains 2,048 Second World War headstones, the majority Canadian, and 19 of them unidentified."
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Location: Bény-sur-Mer, Calvados Department, Normandy, France, Europe
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