The Banneville-La-Campagne Cemetery contains 2,170 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War, 140 of them are unidentified and 5 are Polish graves.
Most of the men buried at Banneville-La-Campagne Cemetery were killed from the second week of July when Caen was captured to the last week in August when the Falaise Gap had been closed.
The cemetery is located on D675 between Caen and Troam, about 8 km from Caen.
Address
Route de Caen (D675)
Banneville-la-Campagne, Calvados
14940
France
Coordinates
49.174856, -0.229307
Parking
Free parking on site
Memorial to all ranks of the 8th Parachute Battalion who fought and died for freedom, Touffreville
Memorial to Serjeant Christopher “Pete” Barwick and comrades of the 2nd Ox & Bucks, who fell here on 7 June 1944 fighting the 21st Panzer Division
The Grave of William Sydney Wilkins of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry who died on the 7th June 1944 aged 22
