St. Desir-de-Lisieux War Cemetery

Description

The British grave service buried 3697 German casualties on this tarrein in St. Desir-de-Lisieux and made it a German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte). It is known as one of the cemeteries where Germen casualties who were found nowadays can be buried.

Address
Chemin de Lisieux, St. Desir-de-Lisieux, France

Established
1944

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