Places to see in ( Bayeux - France ) British War Cemetery
Places to see in ( Bayeux - France ) British War Cemetery
The Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Bayeux, Normandy. The cemetery contains 4,648 burials, mostly of the Invasion of Normandy.Opposite this cemetery stands the Bayeux Memorial which commemorates more than 1,800 casualties of the Commonwealth forces who died in Normandy and have no known grave.
The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by France in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of France during the war. In addition to the Commonwealth burials, there are 466 graves of German soldiers.
The cemetery contains the Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). Queen Elizabeth II and President of France Jacques Chirac attended ceremonies at the cemetery on June 6, 2004, marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Queen Elizabeth II and President of France François Hollande attended ceremonies at the cemetery on June 6, 2014, marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
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Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery
Normandy, France, 2004
Burial site of British Poet Keith Douglas, died fighting in France just after D-Day
Video shot June 10, 2004 at the British War Cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles, in Normandy, France where poet Keith C. Douglas is buried. Also included is some footage shot at the Caen Mémorial de Caen (Peace Museum), regarded as the best World War II museum in France. With over 6,000,000 visitors since it opened, it is the second most visited site in Normandy after Mont-St-Michel. Featured is the file card from Gestapo files of one Claud Huard, arrested in 1944. Claud was the uncle of Rene Huard, who was our driver and guide for much of our tour of Normandy.
Captain Keith Castellain Douglas, - An English World War II poet who took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, at the age of 24, died in France a few days after the Normandy landings. He was killed by enemy mortar fire on 9 June while the Regiment was advancing from Bayeux. He is buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles.
Born: 1920
Killed: 1944
Aged 24
Keith Douglas was born in Tunbridge Wells and educated at Christ's Hospital and Oxford. He served in North Africa during World War Two where he was injured by a land-mine and transferred home. Recovered, he returned to active duty to take part in the invasion of Normandy in 1944. His war poetry shows clearly painted imagery without mournful sentiment. His poem Desert Flowers pays homage to Isaac Rosenberg.
Actors Waiting In The Wings Of Europe
Aristocrats
Desert Flowers
How to Kill
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
Vergissmeinnicht ('Forget-me-not')
Douglas described his poetic style as 'extrospective'; that is, he focused on external impressions rather than inner emotions. The result is a poetry which, according to his detractors, can be callous in the midst of war's atrocities. For others, Douglas's work is powerful and unsettling because its exact descriptions eschew egotism and shift the burden of emotion from the poet to the reader. His best poetry is generally considered to rank alongside the twentieth-century's finest soldier-poetry.
Bayeux War Cemetery, Normandy, France
This is the impressive war Memorial at the Bayeux World War 2 Cemetery at Bayeux, Normandy, France