Creully

Creully (French pronunciation: [kʁøli] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Creully sur Seulles.

[2] The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian Armoured Regiment (London, Ontario).

[3] Lt. McCormick was the only Allied soldier to reach his D-Day objective when on 6 June 1944, after the tank he commanded passed through Creully, it reached the Caen-Bayeux road.

This Calvados geographical article is a stub.