Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers lgraveyard contains 2,175 graves of which 140 are unidentified
The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

History

During the Allies push out of the Normandy bridgeheads, Operation Goodwood and the liberation of Caen were undertaken in July 1944. During August, the Falaise Gap was closed. The majority of the soldiers interred in the cemetery date from these attacks. Of the 2,175 soldiers in this cemetery there are 2,150 Britons, 11 Canadians, 5 Australians, 2 New Zealanders, 5 Poles and two unidentified soldiers.