Commonwealth War Graves La Plaine-sur-Mer

Most of the casualties buried here lost their lives when a troopship, the S.S. Lancastria, with about 5,000 men aboard was bombed and sunk by the enemy off St. Nazaire on 17th June, 1940.

There are nearly 30, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated on La Plaine-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery. Of these, a small number are unidentified and one soldier, whose grave could not be precisely located, is commemorated by a special memorial which bears the superscription "Buried near this spot".

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission