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SECQUEVILLE-EN-BESSIN WAR CEMETERY

Calvados

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.23442, Longitude: -0.50812

Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Picture © Werner Van Caneghem

​Location Information

Secqueville-en-Bessin is a village between Bayeux and Caen, some 14 kilometres from Bayeux or 12 kilometres from Caen.

From Bayeux take the N13 towards Caen. After about 12 kilometres turn left onto the D217, and the village of Secqueville will be found about 2 kilometres to the north. Turn right in the village, and after a few hundred metres take the track to the left, signposted Farringdon Way. The War Cemetery will be found in open fields on the left hand side.



Historical Information

The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.

Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery is a battlefield cemetery, containing the graves of men killed in the advance to Caen early in July and in the subsequent fighting up to the end of that month.

The cemetery contains 99 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and 18 German burials.

Total Burials: 117.

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 98, Germany 16, Total 114.

World War Two Unidentified Casualties: Germany 2, Commonwealth 1. Total 3.


Images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem

Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage    
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Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery
Picture
63916 Captain
Richard Paul Barneby
1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regiment, 
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
1st July 1944, aged 28.
Plot I. C. 1.

Son of Richard Hicks Barneby and of Margaret Elizabeth Barneby (nee Howard); husband of Vera Margery Barneby, of Shawbury, Shropshire.

His headstone bears the inscription "O Valiant Heart"




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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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