Bath

This British war gravesite contains 11 German casualties of the Second World War. Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery contains 290 burials from the Second World War, most of them in the war graves plot. The plot was used by the Royal Air Force as a regional cemetery and contains the graves of airmen stationed in the Commonwealth and allied air forces in the South West. Alongside these graves are those of men who served in squadrons of Coastal Command in their work of patrolling, searching for submarines and providing convoys for shipping. Many of the casualties came from the RAF station at Colerne. Bath suffered badly from attacks by German aircraft and a heavy air raid in April 1942 killed a number of soldiers at home on leave with their families. They are buried with them in the cemetery. In addition to the Commonwealth war graves, the cemetery contains a number of war graves of other nationalities. (Source: CWGC) This cemetery is in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), British partner organization of the Volksbund.