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
Splott medieval times, and a derivation of "plat", meaning a grassy area of land. The name of the original farm would seem to be Middle English "splott", from Old English (speck, blot, patch of land) and the word is to be found in other English place names in the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower, and Pembrokeshire, as well as in Somerset and Devon, in the West Country of England, from where it was presumably introduced by English settlers. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. The population of Splott in the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 12,074, in