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1st KOSB CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS

Bayeux, Normandy

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

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The Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Bayeux, Normandy.[1] The cemetery contains 4,648 burials, mostly from the Invasion of Normandy. Opposite this cemetery stands the Bayeux Memorial which commemorates more than 1,800 casualties of the Commonwealth forces who died in Normandy and have no known grave

LOCATION

Bayeux, Normandy

DIRECTIONS

Coordinates: 49.27412, -0.71399

Description courtesy of Wikipedia

AT REST HERE

9 men of the 1st Battalion rest here

Grave Marker
RANK
First Name
Surname
AGE
Date of Death
Photographs
Private
ROBERT DOCHERTY
CRAWFORD
28
Sunday, 09 July 1944
Private
JOHN
McGINNESS
27
Sunday, 09 July 1944
Private
NORMAN
CLARK
19
Sunday, 09 July 1944
Serjeant
ALEXANDER JOHN
MORETON
31
Wednesday, 07 June 1944
Corporal
JAMES WILLIAM
BURKE
21
Monday, 07 August 1944
Lieutenant
MALCOM RUDOLPH
ROSE
26
Sunday, 06 August 1944
Private
JAMES GARDINER C.
TINSDALE
33
Saturday, 17 June 1944
Lieutenant
ANDREW
KILPATRICK
25
Thursday, 15 June 1944
Private
JOHN
MORRISON
25
Tuesday, 27 June 1944
Grave Marker
RANK
First Name
Surname
AGE
Date of Death
Photo

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

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