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LES MOUTIERS-EN-RETZ COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Loire-Atlantique

France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 47.06493, Longitude: -1.99661

Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Picture © Christine Da Costa

​Location Information

Les Moutiers-en-Retz is a seaside village 10 kilometres south-east of Pornic, a small town and fishing port about 51 kilometres by road west-south-west of Nantes. The Communal Cemetery lies on the eastern side of the village. Against the southern wall of the cemetery are buried 62 servicemen belonging to the forces of the United Kingdom.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible via main entrance.

History Information

All save the sailor lost their lives when the troopship Lancastria was bombed and sunk off St. Nazaire, 29 kilometres north of Les Moutiers, on 17th June, 1940. There are now  62, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 16 are unidentified. Lack of space prevented the erection of individual headstones, and all the men are commemorated by a memorial in the form of a screen wall, with a number of Portland stone panels upon which the names are carved. Between these panels are others bearing the badges of the various regiments, and across the memorial, above the names, runs the inscription "In honoured memory of these British soldiers who perished in the loss of the troopship Lancastria on June 17th, 1940, and who are buried here".

Total Burials: 62.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 46.

Unidentified Casualties: 16.


Pictures © Christine Da Costa

Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery
Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery

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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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