Bény - sur - Mer Canadian War Cemetery The Bény - sur - Mer Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery containing predominantly Canadian soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War . The Cemetery is located in and named after Bény - sur - Mer in the Calvados department , near Caen in lower Normandy . As is typical of war cemeteries in France , the grounds are beautifully landscaped and immaculately kept . Contained within the cemetery is a Cross of Sacrifice , a piece of architecture typical of memorials designed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Canadian soldiers killed later in the Battle of Normandy are buried south of Caen in the Bretteville - sur - Laize Canadian War Cemetery located in Cintheaux . History . Bény - sur - Mer was created as a permanent resting place for Canadian soldiers who had been temporarily interred in smaller plots close to where they fell . As is usual for war cemeteries or monuments , France granted Canada a perpetual concession to the land occupied by the cemetery . The graves contain soldiers from the Canadian 3rd Division and 15 Airmen killed in the Battle of Normandy . The cemetery also includes four British graves and one French grave , for a total of 2049 markers . The French grave belongs to a French resistance soldier named R . Guenard who fought and died alongside the Canadians and who had no known relatives . His marker is the grey cross visible in the lower left of the above picture and is inscribed " Mort pour la France - 19 - 7 - 1944 " . A closeup of Mr . Guenard ' s marker is shown to the right . Because of confusion during the movement of remains from temporary cemeteries , the remains of one Canadian soldier were misplaced ; his tombstone is set apart from the others , and bears an inscription stating that it is known that his remains are in the Bény - sur - Mer cemetery . Bény - sur - Mer contains the remains of 9 sets of brothers , a record for a Second World War cemetery . A large number of dead in the cemetery were killed in early July 1944 in the Battle for Caen . The cemetery also contains soldiers who fell during the initial D - Day assault of Juno Beach . The Canadian Prisoners of War illegally executed at the Ardenne Abbey are interred here . It also contains the grave of Rev . ( H / Capt ) Walter Brown , chaplain to the 27th Armoured Regiment ( Sherbrooke Fusiliers ) and the only chaplain killed in cold blood in World War 2 . Rev Brown was murdered on the night of June 6 / 7 by members of III / 25th SS Panzer Grenedier Regt near Galmanche , but his body was not found until July 1944 . Canadians killed later in the campaign were interred in the Bretteville - sur - Laize Canadian War Cemetery . Location . The cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers , in the Calvados department , on the Creully - Tailleville - Ouistreham road ( D . 35 ) . It is located 15 kilometres northwest of Caen , 18 kilometres east of Bayeux , and 3 . 5 kilometres south of Courseulles - sur - Mer . The village of Bény - sur - Mer is some 2 kilometres southeast of the cemetery . The bus service between Caen and Arromanches ( via Reviers and Ver - sur - Mer ) passes the cemetery . The cemetery can be accessed any time , and tours of the cemetery are available through companies offering tours of historic D - Day locations in the area . The cemetery is west of Reviers .