Cathays Cemetery is the grave of Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, a Special Operations Executive agent. The cemetery includes the graves of 21 French Navy sailors from the First World War, mostly are in the Roman Catholic section, and a similar number of Norwegian sailors from the Second. Elsewhere in the cemetery are numerous other Commonwealth War Graves from both the First and Second World Wars. The cemetery contains in all the graves of 685 service personnel that are registered and maintained by the CWGC. Cathays Cemetery The Cathays Cemetery is one of the main cemeteries of Cardiff, Wales. It is in the
Cathays under the Freedom of Information Act show that over 70% of the houses in Cathays are now HMOs. The buy-to-let market has deterred young couples, families and first time buyers from setting up home in the area. Cathays High School is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive school that started as a boys Grammar school in 1903 and became a comprehensive high school in 1973. Despite the urbanisation of Cathays there is extensive parkland around the civic centre, including Gorsedd Gardens, Queen Alexandra Gardens, Bute Park and Blackweir. The area is served by Cathays railway station in the east of the area