Discover Ranville War Cemetery | D-Day 75 | Cemetery Tour | Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.

Ranville was the first village to be liberated in France when the bridge over the Caen Canal was captured intact in the early hours of 6 June by troops of the 6th Airborne Division, who were landed nearby by parachute and glider.

Many of the division's casualties are buried in Ranville War Cemetery and the adjoining churchyard. The cemetery contains 2,236 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 90 of them unidentified.

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