Memorial Killed Railway-Employees

In the hall of Nijmegen railway station is this plaque situated. It commemorates the railway employees of this region who were killed in the Second World War.

The plaque bears the following names:

• J.A. VAN BEUNINGEN † 22-02-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• L. BUVELOT † 13-09-1944, Etten-Leur, train fire
• J.C. VAN EMPEL † 21-05-1944, Oosterhout (NB), train fire
• A.W.GIELENS † 22-02-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• TH.W.L.BARON VAN HEEMSTRA † 31-03-1945, Zutphen, executed. see Monument Zutphen.Posthumous recipient of the Resistance Cross.
• H.L. JANSSEN † 17-09-1944, Uden, train fire
• A. KUIPERS † 05-11-1944, Nijmegen, bombing Willemskwartier
• A. LANGERAAR † 22-02-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• O.O. VAN DER LINDEN † 22-02-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• F.J. NASS † 27-07-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• B.G.M. NIEUWKAMP † 04-10-1944, Nijmegen, door granaatscherf
• T.J. RIJKSEN † 02-10-1944 , Nijmegen, explosie van projectiel
• ANGELIQUE C.M. SCHEERDER † 22-02-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• J.M. THIJSSEN † 02-11-1944, Euskirchen, bombardment during forced labour
• A. VINK † 29-11-1944, Nijmegen, as member of the NBS (Dutch Domestic Forces)
• J.G. VAN WAGENINGEN † 22-02-1944, Nijmegen, bombing station
• F. ZIJLSTRA † 19-09-1944,Nijmegen, died during the liberation.
• W. TH. ARNOLD † 09-06-1945, Kranenburg, stepped on a booby trap.
•A. VAN TRIGT † 03-09-1944, Roermond, train fire

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne & Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze (1), Dick de Bruijne (2, 3, 4)