Fontenay-le-Pesnel British war cemetery

Fontenay-le-Pesnel British war cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Fontenay-le-Pesnel British war cemetery
Used for those deceased 1944
Established 1944
Location 49°09′40″N 0°33′37″W / 49.1610°N 0.5603°W / 49.1610; -0.5603Coordinates: 49°09′40″N 0°33′37″W / 49.1610°N 0.5603°W / 49.1610; -0.5603
near Tessel, Calvados, France
Designed by Philip D. Hepworth
Total burials 519
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source:

Fontenay-le-Pesnel British war cemetery is a British Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located 16 km west of Caen, Normandy. The cemetery contains 460 commonwealth graves and 59 German graves.[1]

History

A large number of burials date to between the June July 1944, during the Allied attacks to the west and southwest of Caen. A large number of the soldiers interred are from the South Staffordshire, East Lancashire and Royal Warwickshire Regiments plus the Durham Light Infantry.

The 59 German soldiers buried in the cemetery are mainly from the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.

Location

The cemetery is one kilometre south-east of the hamlet of Saint-Martin, Fontenay-le-Pesnel, on the D.139.

See also

References

  1. "Cemetery". www.cwgc.org.

Further reading

  • Shilleto, Carl, and Tolhurst, Mike (2008). "A Traveler’s Guide to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy". Northampton, Mass.: Interlink. ISBN 1-56656-555-3
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