Bayeux War Cemetery: The largest resting place for WWII Commonwealth soldiers in France

Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest cemetery for Second World War Commonwealth personnel in France.

Located in the town of Bayeux, which was the first French town of importance to be liberated during the Allied invasion of the country on D-Day in 1944, the cemetery contains the graves of 4,144 Commonwealth personnel.

Of those graves, 338 remain unidentified to this day.

Laying at rest with them are the graves of 500 other people of various nationalities, including Germans.

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The Bayeux Memorial stands opposite the cemetery and bears the names of more than 1,800 men of the Commonwealth land forces who died in the early stages of the campaign.

Myles Hunt has worked for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for 47 years, is head gardener for the British Normandy Memorial, and has worked at the Bayeux cemetery for eight years.

He said: "The cemetery has a shape that is just unbelievable, right in the middle of town, and all of a sudden you come into this really beautiful area, which is absolutely wonderful."