Canadian War Cemetery Calais
Calais was liberated by the Canadian First Army early in September 1944 as they advanced up the French coast into Belgium in pursuit of retreating German forces. Most of the burials in the cemetery relate to this period of fighting.
Calais Canadian War Cemetery contains 704 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 30 of them unidentified. There are also seven Czech and 19 Polish war graves.
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- Text: TracesOfWar
- Photos: Fedor de Vries
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Museum
Point of interest
- Remains 155 mm C17S Field Howitzer Mimoyecques - Mimoyecques
- Restaurant Le Vivier - Wissant
- Craters Bombardments Cap Blanc Nez Sangatte - Sangatte
Monument
- War Memorial Leubringhen - Leubringhen
- War Memorial Cemetery Saint-Inglevert - Saint-Inglevert
- Memorials Mimoyecques - Mimoyecques
Cemetery
- Commonwealth War Graves Saint-Inglevert - Saint-Inglevert
- Commonwealth War Graves St. Inglevert - St. Inglevert
- Czechoslovakian War Grave Pihen-lès-Guines - Pihen-lès-Guines
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