CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Set into the hillside on the northern edge of the town up against the wall that encircles the towns cemetery.

CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Mers-les-Bains Town Cemetery.

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and Commonwealth War Graves Commission communal cemetery.
We called in here as we saw the CWGC sign.

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A stone being hand carved.

CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Mers-les-Bains cemetery.

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Against the wall about 11 burials only four known and all from the Dieppe raid. A sad reminder.

CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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B.88307 Private
P.J. Walsh
Royal Hamilton
Light Infantry
19th August 1942.

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The 1st Bat. was part of the 4th Inf. Brigade, 2nd Canadian Inf. Div. Landed at Dieppe on the 14 August 1942. 582 men landed, 197 killed, 174 captured & 194 wounded.

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Dieppe August 1942.

CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Also in the cemetery.

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I could find no information on the Internet about this. It just shows about the forgotten civilian casualties that also must have happened when the area was liberated.

CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Here lie the bones
collected after
The bombardment of the cemetery
In 1944

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CWGC Mers-les-Bains Communal Cemetery.

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Tre016 Mers-les-Bains H.K.B.*

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The battery position was on the top of the hill and the bunkers came down right up to the cemetery wall.
*(Heers Kusten Batterie) (an Army battery).

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