| ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY | BENY-SUR-MER CEMETERY REVIERS FRANCE | RYES WAR CEMETERY | BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY | BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY |
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BERGEN-OP-ZOOM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY |
HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY |
GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY | BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY |
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BENY-SUR-MER CEMETERY
| Country: | France |
| Locality: | Calvados |
| Location Information: | Reviers is a village lying 18 kilometres east of Bayeux, 15 kilometres north west of Caen and 4 kilometres south of Courseulles-sur-Mer. The cemetery lies on the north side of the main road 1 kilometre east of Reviers. |
| Historical Information: | The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Many of those buried in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery were men of the 3rd Canadian Division who died either on 6 June or during the early days of the advance towards Caen, when the Division engaged a German battle group formed from the 716th Division and the 21st Panzer Division. The cemetery contains 2,048 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian, and 19 of them unidentified. |
| No. of Identified Casualties: | 2030 |
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