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The War Grave of Private 14695834 Joseph Brew of the 6th Battalion Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment), who died on Wednesday, 9 August 1944, aged 18, is located in Bayeux War Cemetery in Normandy, Calvados, France (Grave 21A.7).
Joseph was the son of Joseph Glass Brew of the Pioneer Corps, who died on active service on 19 August 1941, and of Margaret Ann Brew of Fallowfield, Manchester.
Although there was little fighting in Bayeux itself, the beaches to the northwest and northeast were the scene of the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944. Bayeux was, however, the first French town of some importance to be liberated by the advancing Allied armies.
The town lies 24km northwest of Caen, and Bayeux War Cemetery is located on the town's outskirts, on the south-western side of the ring-road. The cemetery is now the largest Second World War Commonwealth cemetery in France, and includes burials which were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and field hospitals. There are some 4,144 Commonwealth burials in the cemetery, of which 338 are unidentified. There are also an additional 505 graves of other nationalities, most of whom are German.
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© Photographs taken by Steve Brew on 28 September 2002