Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery

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Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Entrance
Used for those deceased 1944
Established	1944
Location	49°10′42″N 0°30′51″W / 49.1782°N 0.5143°W / 49.1782; -0.5143 near  Saint-Manvieu-Norrey, Calvados, France
Designed by	Philip D. Hepworth
Total burials	2,182
Unknowns	135
Burials by nation
United Kingdom: 1,575 Germany: 555 Canada: 3 Australia: 1 Unidentified Commonwealth: 48
Burials by war
World War II
Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery is a British Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located 10 km west of Caen, Normandy. The cemetery's designation often uses the nearby commune of Cheux but the graveyard is actually closer to the commune of Saint-Manvieu-Norrey. The graveyard contains 1,627 Commonwealth war graves and 555 German war graves. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.^[1]

A large proportion of the soldiers buried here are from the battles that took place between Tilly-sur-Seulles and Caen from mid-June to late-July 1944. Key engagements at this time were Operations Epsom and Jupiter. The cemetery received its first interments in mid-June 1944.

The cemetery is 10 km west of Caen, on the D.9 (Rue de la Guinguette).

• American Battle Monuments Commission
• UK National Inventory of War Memorials
• German War Graves Commission
• List of military cemeteries in Normandy

• Shilleto, Carl, and Tolhurst, Mike (2008). “A Traveler’s Guide to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy”. Northampton, Mass.: Interlink. ISBN 1-56656-555-3

• Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery at Find a Grave