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The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 containing Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 and British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 soldiers who were killed during the Dieppe Raid
Dieppe Raid

The Dieppe Raid, also known as The Battle of Dieppe or Operation Jubilee, during the World War II, was an Allies of World War II attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime on the Northern coast of France on 19 August 1942....
 in 1942.

944 members of the Allied Armed Forces are interred at Dieppe, of which 707 are Canadian. Other dead from the raid are buried in Rouen
Rouen

Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
, where the Germans took captured raiders, some of whom died of their wounds, or at the Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe....
 in Surrey
Surrey

Surrey is a counties of England in the South East England of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire....
, where wounded were taken by the Allies.






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The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 containing Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 and British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 soldiers who were killed during the Dieppe Raid
Dieppe Raid

The Dieppe Raid, also known as The Battle of Dieppe or Operation Jubilee, during the World War II, was an Allies of World War II attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime on the Northern coast of France on 19 August 1942....
 in 1942.

944 members of the Allied Armed Forces are interred at Dieppe, of which 707 are Canadian. Other dead from the raid are buried in Rouen
Rouen

Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
, where the Germans took captured raiders, some of whom died of their wounds, or at the Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe....
 in Surrey
Surrey

Surrey is a counties of England in the South East England of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire....
, where wounded were taken by the Allies. Also in the cemetery are the remains of one woman, Mary Janet Climpson, a British Salvation Army
Salvation Army

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the Christian Church. It has a quasi-military structure and it was founded in 1865 in Great Britian as the East London Christian Mission by William Booth and Catherine Booth....
 Officer who had been killed in 1940.

The cemetery is unique in that it was created by the occupying Germans
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, as the Allied raid was a disaster and many dead were forced to be left behind in enemy territory. The headstones have been placed back to back in long double rows, typical of German burials but unlike any other Commonwealth war cemetery. When Dieppe
Dieppe, Seine-Maritime

Dieppe is a town and Communes of France in the Seine-Maritime Departments of France and Haute-Normandie Regions of France of France. At the 1999 census the town had 34,653 inhabitants , while the population of the whole Dieppe urban area was 81,419....
 was retaken in 1944, the Allies elected not to disturb the graves, so this unusual arrangement still stands. Today, the cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a joint governmental organisation responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of members of the Commonwealth of Nations' military forces that died in the two world wars, to build memorials to those with no known grave, and to keep records of the war dead....
.

Location

The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is located approximately five kilometres south of Dieppe, in the town of Hautôt-sur-Mer
Hautot-sur-Mer

Hautot-sur-Mer is a communes of France in the Seine-Maritime departments of France of the Haute-Normandie region of northern France....
. It can be reached by following the N27 (Avenue Des Canadiens) south from Dieppe to the second roundabout where a green Commonwealth War Graves Commission sign points down the Chemin Des Canadiens. The cemetery is about 500 metres down this road on the left hand side. If traveling, do not miss this moving cemetery. It is not easy to locate. The graves lie in a field with little surrounding them. There is a book in which visitors can sign their name and leave a comment.