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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Reviers
Calvados
France

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. Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War cemetery lies on the north side of the main road 1 kilometre east of Reviers. 

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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, designed by P.D. Hepworth, contains 2,048 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian, and 19 of them unidentified.
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Pictures © Johan Pauwels
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C/53811 Private
Thomas Glenn Giffin
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R. C. I. C.
8th July 1944, aged 21.
Plot XI. E. 14.

Son of Harold Edmund and Ketha L. Giffin, of Brockville, Ontario.

Picture courtesy of niece, Valerie Kirkwood

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Lieutenant 
Donald Jack Smith
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, attd. Royal Norfolk Regiment
8th July 1944, aged 26.
Plot VI. G. 12.

Son of Donald O. and Nellie C. Smith; husband of Mabel Norma Smith, of Toronto, Ontario.

Enlisted June 14, 1940, promoted to Sergeant July 1940, promoted to Lieutenant Aug 21, 1943

Picture courtesy of nephew, Terry Weller

Three Brothers buried in Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery

(Click on Headstone for details)

​Pictures © Johan Pauwels


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Disclaimer


The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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