Banneville
Cemetery is the final resting place for 2,150 British soldiers,
11 Canadians, 5 Australians, 2 New Zealanders, 5
Poles and two unidentified bodies ‑ some 2,175 graves
in all.
Most of these men were killed in July 1944, during the
Liberation of Caen and Operation Goodwood, which was launched in the
plain to the east of the city. Also buried here are the remains of
soldiers who died in subsequent fighting, up to and including the battle
of the Falaise Pocket.
