Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery

Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery is a British Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located 15 km south-west of Bayeux, Normandy. The cemetery contains 1,005 commonwealth war graves and 132 German war graves.[1]

Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Hottot-les-Bagues British war cemetery
Used for those deceased 1944
Established1944
Location49.1608°N 0.6264°W / 49.1608; -0.6264
near 
Hottot-les-Bagues, Calvados, France
Designed byPhilip D. Hepworth
Total burials1,005
Unknowns
56
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source:

History

The majority of the soldiers interred in the cemetery were killed in late June and July 1944 as the Allies pushed south of Bayeux and then south-west to encircle Caen. Many casualties were involved in fighting around Tilly-sur-Seulles.

Two brigadiers are interred in the cemetery; John Roland Mackintosh-Walker of the Seaforth Highlanders and James Hargest from the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.

Casualties not just from the battles to encircle Caen, but from Operation Bluecoat. There are 24 Scots Guards (3rd Battalion) buried within, most lost their lives on hill 226 (now renumbered 232) near Les Loges on the push south from Caumont. These soldiers were in a tank battalion, part of the 6th Guards tank Brigade. Using Churchill & Stuart tanks.

Location

The cemetery is 14 km south-east of Bayeux, between Hottot-les-Bagues and Juvigny-sur-Seulles on the D.9 road.

See also

References
  1. "Cemetery". www.cwgc.org.

Further reading
  • Shilleto, Carl, and Tolhurst, Mike (2008). "A Traveler’s Guide to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy". Northampton, Mass.: Interlink. ISBN 1-56656-555-3
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