FRANCE ISOJ-IS80 1939-194S THE WAR DEAD 'OF THE COMMONW·EALTH CEMETERIES IN FINISTERE, COTES-DU-NORD AND MORBIHAN FRANCE SCALE 1:5,008,844 OR 79·4 MlLES TO l INCH MILES 50 40 30 20 10 0 50 MILES 0 E E R R N E A N S E A A 3829 lndicated in red are the locations of cemeteries where the re are more than 40 war graves. There are smaller groups of graves in hundreds of cemeteries and churchyards ali over France. ln the areas enclosed by dotted !ines in Brittany, Normandy and Northern France, cemeteries are too many and too close together to be shown on this map; a separate map of each region is included in the registers of cemeteries in that region. THE WAR DEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH Granville The Register of the names of th6se who feil in the 1939-194-S War and are buried in Cemeteries in France CEMETERIES IN FINISTERE, COTES-DU-NORD AND MORBIHAN .,o.,.,fl ILES DE •GLÉNAN ILEDEGROI~ ~ILE HOUAT BELLE ILE~ co ILE HOEDIC BRITTANY SCALE 1'1,441.379 OR 23·1 MILES TO 1 INCH REFERENCE Noirmouti~ RDOds, Principal ....•••.•.== Rllilways ••.•.•••..••••••. .........._..--+-+- Canals.. __________________ -'-r-'-~ LONDON: COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION 1961 INDEX TO THE REGISTERS OF THE GRAVES INDEX NO. PAGE Benodet Communal Cemetery FR. 1509 8 Br~st (Kerfautras) Cemetery, Lamhézelle~ · FR. 1507 2 Bngnogan-Plage Communal Cemetery FR. 1510 9 Broons Communal Cemetery · · FR. 1557 29 Cam~et-sur-Mer Communal Cem~tery FR. 1511 9 Ca;hatx Communal Cemetery · · FR. 1512 9 Cleden-Cap-Sizun Communal Ce~~tery · · FR. 1513 9 Clohar~-Carnoet Communal Cemetery : · FR. 1514 9 Combnt Churchyard · FR. 1515 9 Concarneau Communal Ce~~tery · · FR. 1516 10 THE LANDS IN FRANCE OCCUPIED AS COM­ Crozon Communal Cem;:tery · · FR. 1517 10 MONWEALTH WAR CEMETERIES OR GRAVES Douarnenez Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1518 10 WERE GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY THE FRENCH Eréac Communal Cemetery. · · FR. 1558 29 GOVERNMENT UNDER THE TERMS OF A WAR Fouesnant Communal Cemetery FR. 1519 11 GRAVES AGREEMENT SIGNED AT PARIS, ON 31sT Gavres Communal Cemetery FR. 1570 41 OCTOBER, 1951, BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS Gouesnou Churchyard FR. 1520 11 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND NORTHERN Gu~ del Communal Cemetery · FR. 1568 34 IRELAND, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, Gullers Churchyard FR. 1521 Il THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA AND Gu~pa~as Communal Cemete~y : : FR. 1522 12 PAKISTAN AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE Gmscrlff Communal Cemetery FR. 1571 42 FRENCH REPUBLIC. Hopital-Cru:nfrout Communal Cem~tery FR. 1523 12 Ile-aux-Momes Communal Cemetery FR. 1572 42 The particulars given in the registers of the names have Ile-de-Batz Communal Cemetery .• FR. 1524 12 been compiled from information furnished by the Records Ile-de-Bréhat Communal Cemetery FR. 1559 30 Offices concerned and by the next-of-kin. Kerlouan Communal Cemetery FR. 1525 12 La Forest Churchyard FR. 1526 12 Landéda Communal Cemet~;y FR. 1527 13 Lanester Communal Cemetery FR. 1573 42 Lanildut Churchyard FR. 1528 13 Lannilis Communal Cemete~y FR. 1529 13 Lanriec Communal Cemetery FR. 1530 13 Lanvéoc Communal Cemetery FR. 1531 13 La Trinité-sur-Mer Communal Ce~etery .. FR. 1574 43 Le Conquet Communal Cemetery FR. 1532 14 Le Folgoet Communal Cemetery · · · · FR. 1533 14 Les~even Communal Cemetery . FR. 1534 14 Lone~t (Kerentrech) Communal Ce~eter. · FR. 1569 40 L~~deac Communal Cemetery y FR. 1560 30 Milizac Churchyard . FR. 1535 15 Moelan-sur-Mer Communal Ceme~~ry FR. 1536 16 N?tre-_Dame-du-Guildo Churchyard FR. 1561 30 Penestm Communal Cemetery FR. 1575 43 Pe;ros-Guirec Communal Cemetecy. FR. 1562 30 Plevenon Communal Cemetery FR. 1563 30 Ploud~ézeau Communal Cemetecy FR. 1537 16 Ploudaniel Churchyard FR. 1538 16 Plouescat Communal Cemetecy FR. 1508 7 iii ii INDEX NO. PAGE FR. 1539 17 Plougasnou Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1540 17 Plougastel-Daoulas Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1541 17 THE W AR IN FRANCE Plougonvelin Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1576 43 Plougoumelen Communal Cemetery FR. 1542 18 Plouguerneau Communal Cemetery FR.l543 18 Plouhinec Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1544 18 HE~ is hardly a c~~ner of France that does not :ontain the ~rave of a soldier Plouzané Churchyard FR. 1564 31 T or a1rman of the Bnnsh Commonwealth and Emptre who feil m the 1939-1945 Plurien Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1545 19 War. Sorne among this host lie in small churchyards or communal cemeteries ; Poullan-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery FR. 1577 43 Quiberon Communal Cemetery FR. 1578 44 many are gathered together in large war cemeteries ; others lie beside those of the Réguiny Communal Cemetery FR. 1546 19 previous generation who gave their lives in the years 1914-1918. Widely scattered as Roscanvel Communal Cemetery FR. 1547 19 their graves are, their numbers are far fewer than those of the years 1914-1918- Roscoff Communal Cemetery FR. 1556 25 St. Brieuc Western Communal Cemetery FR. 1565 31 approximately 45,000 as compared with 530,000 for the earlier war. Apart from that St. Cast COmmunal Cemetery · · FR. 1548 19 comparison, their deaths have meant that many a home has suffered bereavement for St. Eloy Churchyard . · · · · FR. 1549 20 a second rime within thirty years. St. Pol-de-Léon Communal Cemetery FR. 1550 20 St. Renan Churchyard · · · · FR. 1551 20 St. Thégonnec Communal Cemetery FR. 1579 44 Most of the graves contained in war cemeteries and the larger communal cemetery Sarzeau Communal Cemetery FR. 1566 31 plots lie within relatively small regions: close to the beaches in Normandy, along the Servel Churchyard . · FR. 1552 21 Sibiril Communal Cemetery FR. 1553 21 Channel coast, and near the Franco-Belgian frontier. It is also to be remembered Taulé Communal Cemetery · · FR. 1567 31 that the graves scattered ·in small groups in hundreds of cemeteries from the Medi­ Trébeurden Communal Cemetery .. FR. 1554 21 terranean to the Straits of Dover are often those of airmen who failed to return from Tréfl.ez Churchyard . · · · FR. 1555 21 Trégunc Communal Cemetery · · FR. 1580 44 raids, of men drowned at sea whose bodies were recovered on the shores of France, Vannes (Boismoreau) Communal Cemetery 1 or of men who worked with the forces striving within France for her liberation. The First Eight Months Almost immediately on the declaration of war in September 1939, the nucleus of the British Expeditionary Force was sent to France. Cherbourg was used for the landing of troops, and Brest, Nantes and St. Nazaire for stores and vehicles. Within a week these ports were ready. Between 14th and 21st September the G.H.Q. was brought together at Le Mans, and on 22nd September the troops of the 1st Corps began to arrive. General Gamelin had been appointed supreme commander of the Allied forces ; the British Commander was Viscount Gort. The sector of the front allotted to the British ran along the Franco-Belgian frontier, from Maulde northward to Halluin, then south-westward to Armentières : the salient thus fotmed protected the important industrial towns of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing. The British 1st Corps was in position here by 3rd October, forming a part of the command of General Georges, commander of the French north-eastern front. During the winter the British troops were occupied in constructing defensive works to fill in the gap between the northern end of the Maginot Line and the sea. v iv As the winter drew on it was felt that the British forces must gain sorne experience of contact with the enem'y, and arrangements were made for British brig~des in tur~ to near Maastricht ~ithout _demolishing them, and despite an attack by the R.A.F. on 1_2th May partmlly wrecked the Albert Canal bridge at Maastricht, the take over a part of that sector of the Saar front, not far fr~m Metz, . whtch was bemg wh~ch held by the French. There they made their first acquamtance wtth the patrol and Belg~an f01ward lme was doomed, and the Belgians were obliged to withdraw to the hne on_ the left of the British Expeditionary Force from the Scheldt estuary to raiding activities of the battlefield. Men of the 4~ In_fantry Briga~e on patrol were near Louvam. The Germans had already started their attack in the Ardennes region the first British troops to cross the German frontler m thts war,_ I~_January. 1940. between Sedan and Namur. This attack, directed against the weakest part of th~ In April it was decided to send not just one brigade but a_whol~ d1vts1on to th1s part French front, gaye the German armour its chance to drive a passage through the of the front and the 51st (Highland) Division completed 1ts rehef of the French 7th of the Alhed forces. By the evening of the 12th the Germans had reached Division in 'the Maginot Line by 6th May. In this way it that when the cent~e happen~d. the hne of the Meuse from Namur to Seda11; by the evening of the 13th the French German attack came the British Expeditionary Force, now compnsmg the greater defence line was penetrated, though not broken ; and by 15th May the Germans proportion of three corps, was divi~ed into two w~dely separated parts, the one on had the mastery of the entire front. On the 14th the Dutch had laid down their the Belgian frontier and the other m the Saar regwn. arms. T~eY. had kept a large Ger~an force fully engaged in Rolland for sorne days, The previous autumn, plans had been considered against the eventuality of a German and had mfhcted heavy losses on tt, but had been overwhelmed by sheer weight.