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- Aarestrup Kirke, Denmark
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- Brookwood Military Cemeteries
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- D-Day Gold Beach - Remnants of Mulberry Harbour
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- Deutsche Soldatendfriedhof La Cambe, Normandy
- Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France
- Enniskillen Roman Catholic Cemetery
- Enniskillen Boer War Memorial
- Escoublac-La Baule War Cemetery St Nazaire
- HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme Department, Northern France
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- Scopwick Burial Ground, Scopwick, Lincolnshire
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- CWGC Eyes On, Hands On Volunteer Programme
- Biography Commandant Roger Baudoin French Foreign Legion
- Biography Captain Eric Bell VC 9th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
- Biography Trooper George Sydney Herbert Biffin B Sqn 1 SAS
- Biography Lance Sergeant Charles Frederick Bristow GM RE
- Biography Lt HD Brotheridge Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
- Biography L/Cpl William Harold Coltman VC DCM* MM*
- Biography Lieutenant W H England No 48 RM Commando
- Buffalo LVT 'Conqueror' destroyed at Walcheren.
- Biography Pilot Officer Emil Fechtner RAF (Czech)
- Biography Private Oswald Fisher 2nd RM Bn, RN Division, RMLI 1916
- Biography Lt Col J G Fitzmaurice MC Royal Tank Regiment
- Biography Flight Sergeant Josef František DFM* RAF
- Biography Sergeant Pietro Alfredo Giovetti RAFVR
- Biography Lieutenant John Grayburn VC, 2 Para
- Biography Lt Cdr Nicodeme Guilonard Netherlands Navy
- Biography Major The Viscount Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden.
- Biography Captain PH Haydon DSO No. 41 RM Commando
- Biography Private Owen Hooper, The Buffs & 4 Commando
- Biography Freddy Jackson
- Biography Lieutenant Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. US Navy
- Biography Oberstleutnant Walter Koch, Kommandeur Fällschirmjaeger-Regiment 5
- Biography Flight Lieutenant DSA Lord VC RAF
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- Biography Major Robert Reid Maitland MB CHB RAMC
- Biography Wg Cdr Jaroslav Maly RAF
- Biography Lieutenant Colonel William McDowell DSO BSc RE
- Biography Sergeant Ian John McKay VC, 3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment
- Biography Flying Officer Geoff Adrian Mombrun RAFVR
- Biography Marine Byron Moses No. 41 RM Commando
- Biography Flying Officer J E Northend RAFVR
- Biography Group Captain 'Bobby' Oxspring DFC** AFC RAF
- Biography FO Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz DFC RAF
- Biography Lieutenant HE 'Jimmy' Pearson MC The Reconnaissance Corps
- Biography Pilot Officer Harold Edwin Penketh RAFVR
- Biography Rifleman Frank Pennefather, 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade
- Biography Sergeant Robert John "Jack" Preece, 61 Squadron RAF.
- Biography Lieutenant John Richard Priestley The Rifle Brigade
- Biography Staff Sjt Christopher Robinson Glider Pilot Regt., AAC
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- Biography Sepoy Mahrup (Mahruf) Shah 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis
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- Biography Private James Stokes VC 2nd Bn KSLI
- Biography Lieutenant Colonel Leon Robert ‘Bob’ Vance, US Army Air Force
- Biography Lt Gen Adrian Carton de Wiart
- Biography Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann
- Taking Chance. The importance of remembrance.
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Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof La Cambe, Normandy
The largest German War Cemetery in Normandy, containing 21,245 German military casualties. The cemetery was designed by architect Robert Tischler. Situated cose to the US objective of Omaha Beach, the cemetery originally held both German and American casualties. There are 5 other German military cemeteries in Normandy which collectively hold around another 56,000 casualties.
The central burial mound is the final resting place of 296 casualties, 207 unidentified and 89 identified casualties.
After the War, the American authorities relocated their fallen to the cemetery at St. Laurent-sur-Mer approximately 15 km away. German casualties buried there were exhumed and reinterred at La Cambe.
Notable graves:
- Hauptsturmbannführer (SS Captain) Michael Wittman - famous SS Panzer Commander. Originally buried in a makeshift battlefield grave, the bodies of Wittman and his crew were discovered in 1983 and were reinterred at La Cambe
- Sturmbannführer Adolf "Otto" Diekman - who ordered the masacre at Oradour-sur-Glane; he was killed in action before he was court-martialled for the atrocity.
- Generalmajor Sigismund-Helmut von Dawans, killed June 10th 1944 at La Caine in an RAF raid on the HQ of Panzergruppe West.
- Hauptmann (Captain) Herbert Huppertz, Luftwaffe fighter pilot, commanding officer of the famous 'Richthofen' fighter squadron, killed on 8 June, aged 25.
