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Private George William Morris served with the 6th Bn Duke of
Wellington's West Riding Regiment. He is buried in the Bayeux War
Cemetery, France.
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 and have no known grave. They died during the
landings in Normandy, during the intense fighting in Normandy
itself, and during the advance to the River Seine in August.
The
Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy
landings of 6 June 1944. There was little actual fighting in Bayeux
although it was the first French town of importance to be liberated.
Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the
Second World War in France and contains burials brought in from the
surrounding districts and from hospitals that were located nearby.
Bayeux War Cemetery contains 4,144 Commonwealth burials of the
Second World War, 338 of them unidentified. There are also over 500
war graves of other nationalities, the majority German.
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