The Fort des Dunes military cemetery is a place of remembrance that brings together the remains of soldiers who died during Operation Dynamo, which allowed the evacuation of the British expeditionary force and part of the French forces surrounded in the Dunkirk pocket . The cemetery was laid out between 1957 and 1959 next to Fort des Dunes, a military structure built at the end of the 19th century. The cemetery has nearly 190 graves, including 167 of French soldiers buried individually. To the right of the cemetery, a monument-ossuary contains the remains of 19 French and six unknown Czechs. Among these soldiers is General Janssen, commander of the 12th Motorized Infantry Division (DIM), killed on June 2, 1940 during the aerial bombardment of the fort. Several commemorative plaques are affixed at the entrance to the fort and in its ditches, in tribute to the gendarmes, resistance fighters and other combatants who fell on this site during the Second World War.