LA PLAINE-SUR-MER COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Loire-Atlantique
France
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 29, 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".
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 29, 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".