Template:Use dmy dates Template:Expand French Template:Infobox French commune Creully ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) 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.<ref>Arrêté préfectoral 8 September 2016 Template:In lang</ref>
The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian Armoured Regiment (London, Ontario).<ref>Template:Cite news</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>Template:Cite news</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>.
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