This large scale daylight assault on a fortified objective was an abject failure and casualties were very heavy.

Further casualties from the Dieppe raid are buried in Rouen, where the Germans took captured soldiers, some of whom later died of their wounds.

The cemetery is unique in that it was created by the occupying Germans, as the Allied raid was a disaster and many dead were forced to be left behind in enemy territory.

The headstones were placed back-to-back in long double rows, typical of German burials but unlike any other Commonwealth war cemetery.

When Dieppe was liberated in 1944, the Allies elected not to disturb the graves, so this unusual arrangement remains.