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With
its 4,648 graves, Bayeux is the largest British WWII cemetery
in France. It stands on the site of a temporary cemetery, which was
set up near a military hospital shortly after the town was liberated on
June 7th 1944.
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It
holds not only the remains of 3,935 British soldiers but also
those of 181 Canadians, 17 Australians, 8 New
Zealanders, 1 South African, 25 Poles, 3 Frenchmen,
2 Czechs, 2 Italians, 7 Russians and 466 Germans,
as well as one unidentified body.
On the other side of the ring road, a
memorial bears the names of 1,808 Commonwealth soldiers with no known
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