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LA PLAINE-SUR-MER COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Loire-Atlantique

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 47.13685, Longitude: -2.18727

Location Information

La Plaine-sur-Mer is a village some 50 kilometres west of Nantes and 8 kilometres north-west of the Port of Pornic. The Communal Cemetery is on the north-eastern side of the village, on the main road from Pornic.



Visiting Information

Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.

History Information

Most of the casualties buried here lost their lives when a troopship, the S.S. Lancastria, with about 5,000 men aboard was bombed and sunk by the enemy off St. Nazaire on 17th June, 1940. Originally two American airmen were also buried in this cemetery, but their remains were exhumed by the U.S. Army authorities in 1949 for re-burial in an American cemetery. There are 28, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 7 are unidentified and one soldier, whose grave could not be precisely located, is commemorated by a special memorial which bears the superscription "Buried near this spot".

Total Burials: 28. 

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 21.

Unidentified Casualties: 7.

All images below © Jane Full except for picture of entrance which is used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery
La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery

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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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