The text on the memorial is:
"Remember September 1944, Airborne West-Arnhem,
17 September 1987, Unveilled by Major-General R.E. Urquhart C.B. D.S.O."
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During the first days of the Battle of Arnhem there was heavy fighting in Arnhem-West. The units intended to reinforce the bridge were stopped here. Every year on the Friday afternoon during the memorial weekend in September, there is a ceremony at the monument that General Urquhart himself unveiled. An impression of Friday 17 September 2021: