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CAHAGNES ISOLATED GRAVE

Calvados

France


​GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.07996, Longitude: -0.79132

Location Information

Cahagnes is a village and commune 16 miles south of Bayeux, and 20 miles south-west of Caen. The nearest small town is Caumont l'Evente which is 3 miles north-west of Cahagnes.

About 1 mile south-east of Caumont l'Evente, on the west side of the D.54 road from this town to Cahagnes, is the isolated grave of a British officer.



Historical Information

Lt. Marshall-Cornwall was commanding a tank when he was shot by a sniper and buried, where he fell, in an orchard near Cahagnes. After the war, the landowner presented the site of the grave to the casualty's father, who in turn, requested that the grave remain undisturbed.

The grave is marked by a Commission headstone, with a privately erected memorial standing nearby.



Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Cahagnes Isolated Grave
Cahagnes Isolated Grave
Cahagnes Isolated Grave
Cahagnes Isolated Grave
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255169 Lieutenant 
James Gerald Marshall-Cornwall
4th Bn. Grenadier Guards
30th July 1944, aged 22.

​Son of General Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., and of Lady Marshall-Cornwall (nee Scott Owen), of Chelsea, London. His headstone bears the inscription "All You Had, You Gave... Yourselves You Scorned To Save"

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CAUMONT L'ÉVENTÉ COMMUNAL CEMETERY
LIVRY (LE REPAS) ISOLATED GRAVE
livry churchyard

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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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