Editing Creully (section)

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{{Infobox French commune
| name               = Creully
| image coat of arms = Blason Creully.svg
| image              = Ancienne Halle de Creully.JPG
| arrondissement     = Caen
| canton             = Thue et Mue
| INSEE              = 14200
| postal code        = 14480
| commune            = [[Creully sur Seulles]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|49.2844|-0.5394|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| elevation m        = 40
| elevation min m    = 7
| elevation max m    = 61
| area km2           = 8.56
| population         = 1586
| population date    = 2018
| population footnotes   = <ref name=pop2018>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/4989724/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018], [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]]</ref>
}}
'''Creully''' ({{IPA|fr|kʁøli|-|Fr-Creully.ogg}}) is a former [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]] [[Regions of France|region]] in northwestern [[France]]. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune [[Creully sur Seulles]].<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/9/8/INTB1629486A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 8 September 2016 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian Armoured Regiment (London, Ontario).<ref>{{cite news|last=Outhit|first=Jeff|title=Liberator then, hero still|url=https://www.toronto.com/news-story/2580061-liberator-then-hero-still/|accessdate=17 January 2021|newspaper=Record (Kitchener, ON)|date=8 June 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|last=Belanger|first=Joe|title=Vet Wants to See Juno Beach Once More|url=https://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/2580655-the-greatest-longest-day/|accessdate=17 January 2021|date=8 June 2011}}</ref>

The school in Creully, Normandy, is named Cecil Newton Primary School in honour of Second World War veteran Cecil Newton<ref>https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/french-school-named-after-second-world-war-veteran-9300153/#:~:text=Sign%20in%20here.,sur%20Seulles%20Thierry%20Ozenne%2C%20left</ref>.