Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery

Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery
Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery.jpg
Used for those deceased 1942-1945
Established 1942
Location 49°53′45″N 1°4′4″E / 49.89583°N 1.06778°E / 49.89583; 1.06778Coordinates: 49°53′45″N 1°4′4″E / 49.89583°N 1.06778°E / 49.89583; 1.06778 near Dieppe, France
Total burials 944
Burials by nation
Canada 707
Burials by war
World War II: 944
Statistics source: Cemetery register: DetailsReportsPlansPhotographs. CWGC.

The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery in France containing Canadian and British soldiers who were killed during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.

944 members of the Allied Armed Forces are interred at Dieppe, of which 707 are Canadian. Other dead from the raid are buried in Rouen, where the Germans took captured raiders, some of whom died of their wounds, or at the Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, where wounded were taken by the Allies. Also in the cemetery are the remains of one woman, Mary Janet Climpson, a British Salvation Army Officer who had been killed in 1940.

The cemetery is unique in that it was created by the occupying Germans, as the Allied raid was a disaster and many dead were forced to be left behind in enemy territory. The headstones have been placed back to back in long double rows, typical of German burials but unlike any other Commonwealth war cemetery. When Dieppe was retaken in 1944, the Allies elected not to disturb the graves, so this unusual arrangement still stands. Today, the cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Location

The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is located approximately five kilometres south of Dieppe, in the town of Hautôt-sur-Mer. It can be reached by following the N27 (Avenue Des Canadiens) south from Dieppe to the second roundabout where a green Commonwealth War Graves Commission sign points down the Chemin Des Canadiens.

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