Commonwealth Cemetery Ranville

The Commonwealth Cemetery in Ranville has 2,236 graves, most of them British soldiers killed on D-Day or after, but also includes 90 "known only to God," 323 German graves and others of different nations. The cemetery is near Benouville, the first French town liberated on D-Day, and is next door to a church where there are other soldiers buried. I found the visit to the cemetery very moving, many of the soldiers were only boys of 17 or 18 years, some of them with wives and children left behind.