Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery
- Country France
- Total identified casualties 2874 Find these casualties
- Region Calvados
- Identified casualties from Second World War
- GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.06055, Longitude: -0.29188
Go on a virtual visit to Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery has Memory Anchor tours available using the FREE app for mobile phones and tablets. The tours cover different aspects of the site and the Commonwealth servicemen and women we commemorate within the grounds.
The app can be used remotely or, If you are visiting the cemetery, you can use the tour to follow a path around it, reading the stories along the route. There is also a scan function allowing the user to scan a headstone and bring up the related casualty information throughout the cemetery.
The Memory Anchor app can be downloaded from the links below.
Access the Bretteville-sur-Laize virtual tour via the Memory Anchor app, available on IOS and Android.
Download FREE app for iOS Download FREE app for Android
SHARE THE STORIES OF D-DAY AND NORMANDY
If you'd like to know more about who we commemorate, visit For Evermore: Stories of the Fallen, the CWGC online commemorative resource. Here you can read and share the fascinating stories from some of the people who took part in D-Day and Normandy Campaign.
Go on a virtual visit to La Deliverande War Cemetery
La Deliverande War Cemetery has Memory Anchor tours available using the FREE app for mobile phones and tablets. The tours cover different aspects of the site and the Commonwealth servicemen and women we commemorate within the grounds.
The app can be used remotely or, If you are visiting the cemetery, you can use the tour to follow a path around it, reading the stories along the route. There is also a scan function allowing the user to scan a headstone and bring up the related casualty information throughout the cemetery.
The Memory Anchor app can be downloaded from the links below.
Access the La Deliverande virtual tour via the Memory Anchor app, available on IOS and Android.
Download FREE app for iOS Download FREE app for Android
SHARE THE STORIES OF D-DAY AND NORMANDY
If you'd like to know more about who we commemorate, visit For Evermore: Stories of the Fallen, the CWGC online commemorative resource. Here you can read and share the fascinating stories from some of the people who took part in D-Day and Normandy Campaign.
Location information
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) about 14 kilometres south of Caen and just north of the village of Cintheaux. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the cemetery.
Visiting information
ARRIVAL
The route to the cemetery is signposted.
PARKING
There is a large car park at the front of the cemetery with space for multiple vehicles.
The ground surface is tarmac, the ground flat and firm.
The distance from the parking area to the main entrance is approximately 60 metres, a tarmac and concrete path cuts across a grass area and the path leads to the main entrance. The ground is flat and firm.
ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE
The cemetery is large and a rectangular shape.
The main entrance has a central, double sectioned, low level (thigh height), black metal gate. The opening sections of the gate are 1.8 meters wide, with each section 900 mm wide. The main gate has a latched opening.
The gate opens inwards into the cemetery area.
Behind the main gate is a large stone columned memorial arch, with a roof. There is a single stone step up to and down from the arch into the cemetery burial area. It is possible to bypass the entrance archway through openings in the hedges close to the domed shelters opposite the entrance feature.
All internal cemetery paths are grass, with the ground flat and firm.
On either side of the covered arch are shelter buildings, with access from under the arch and out into the cemetery. A single step down from the shelter buildings lead onto grass.
The register box is on the left side shelter building viewed from the entrance.
There are seating areas inside each of the shelters, as well as built into the entrance feature.
Two seating areas are also located opposite to the entrance archways on either side of the cemetery, built in to domed shelters.
Stone benches are also located throughout the cemetery.
The Stone of Remembrance is located in front of the entrance arch, in line with the Cross of Sacrifice located in the centre of the cemetery.
ALTERNATIVE ACCESS
There are no alternative entrances into the cemetery.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The cemetery is permanently open.
History information
The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.
For the most part, those buried at Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards - led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions - to close the Falaise Gap. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the cemetery.
The cemetery contains 2,958 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian, and 87 of them unidentified.