Canada's primary cemetery for the men killed at Juno Beach, June 6-7 1944. The cemetery is on a rise, 3 km from Juno Beach/Courcelle-sur-Mer, and along the path that the Canadians fought securing the beachhead in the days following the initial landing.
History
The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.
Many of those buried in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery were men of the 3rd Canadian Division who died either on 6 June or during the early days of the advance towards Caen, when the Division engaged a German battle group formed from the 716th Division and the 21st Panzer Division.
The cemetery, designed by P.D. Hepworth, contains 2,048 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian, and 19 of them unidentified.
