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Memorial Crash Lancaster General Cemetery Sommelsdijk
This Memorial commemorates the killed crew of a Lancaster bomber which crashed down in Sommelsdijk. The crew is also buried here. Commonwealth War Graves Sommelsdijk.
Dutch text on the Memorial (translated to English):
1940 - 1945
DEDICATED TO THEM
WHO GAVE THEIR YOUNG LIFE
FOR OUR FREEDOM
28 MAY 1944
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- Text: TracesOfWar.nl
- Photos: Adri Kramer
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