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Overloon Commonwealth Military Cemetery (Holland) |
Important note The cemetery
is located in Overloon, Netherlands. 280 soldiers and air crew members
from Commonweatlh countries are buried there. They died between September
1944 and May 1945 during the liberation of Belgium, the Netherlands
or during the advance in Germany. |
The
following website provides a list of Commonwealth memorial throughout
Netherlands: Memorial
sites listing |
Historical information All but one (a Dutch soldier) of the burials are British: 265 soldiers and 14 airmen. They mostly fell in the fighting of October and November in the advance by British Second Army to the Waal. The Commonwealth servicemen who died in the campaign are mostly buried in war cemeteries and Commonwealth sections of other cemeteries, along the line of advance. Allied Command of the air played a large part in the success of the campaign and many airmen who died during operations over Europe are buried singly or in small groups in village cemeteries and churchyards where their graves are tended with loving care by the local communities. The 1.062 soldiers whose graves are unknown are commemorated on the memorial in Groesbeek Canadian war cemetery and the missing sailors and airmen on memorials at their home ports or at Runnymede, England. Location information The Overloon War Cemetery is located at Overloon in Netherlands (30 kilometers from Nijmegen). |