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D-Day: Buried where they fought; The graves of thousands of Commonwealth servicemen provide a moving testament to the scale of the sacrifice made in the Normandy campaign. Paul Groves and Jennifer Sym report on the lasting legacies of 'ordinary men'.(Features)
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Byline: Paul Groves and Jennifer Sym
More than a million troops landed in France -and more than 22,000 who fell in the three-month long campaign are buried there.
The graves are tended by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which maintains 18 cemeteries in the area.
It is responsible for marking and maintaining graves of those who died in the two World Wars, building and maintaining memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown and for providing records and registers of the 1.75 million burials and commemora-tions ...
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