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Wederopstanding is Bevrijding Memorial

Text on the monument:
In honor
of them and our fatherland
died here
killed in action
cpl. R. Stohhard
tpr. B. Nicholis

20-09-1944

(Picture 2 shows their first temporary grave)

Close to the monument are 2 benches with the inscription:
"44th Royal-tank-regiment" and "101-airborne"

On 25 September 2009, additional names of 29 people who were killed in Nuenen in the Second World War were added to the monument, on a separate plaque, due to research of Foppe de Lang.

Citizens from Nuenen:
Martinus Johannes Koolen; Josef Antoon Smolders; Adrianus van Stiphout; Marinus Johannes van de Nieuwenhof; Franciscus Adrianus Roijakkers en Antonius Marcellus Maria de Win.

Allies:
Charles Vernon Leslie Hulbert; Dennis Mansell Lewis; Joshua Allen Sykes; Arthur Tooth; Thomas Rees Jones; George Albert Denney; Patrick James Galligan; Delorn Leonard Steiner; Morris Leve; John Rowland Hill; George Frederick Witty; Kenneth Walton Jones; Thomas Birthswistle Whewell; Thomas Albert Hall; David Mcfarlane Forsyth Bell; George Frederick Wood; Reginald Pecy Naylor; Arthur Forster Marshall; Ralph Stothard; Basil Nicholls; William (W.R.) Miller; Vernon Menze; Robert van Klinken; James W. Miller and Ivor Ernest Charles Davies

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Source

  • Text: Jeroen Koppes & Geert-Jan van Glabbeek
  • Photos: Lennard Bolijn (1, 2, 3), Jan Weijers (4), Jeroen Koppes (5)