Commonwealth War Cemetery Overloon
All but one of the 280 burials here are British (or Commonwealth); 265 are soldiers and 14 airman. The remaining burial is one of a Dutch soldier. They mostly fell in during the fights of October and November 1944 in the advance by the British second army to the Waal.
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Source
- Text: Marcel Jans & Jeroen Koppes
- Photos: Jeroen Koppes (1, 2), Patrick Molders (3, 4), Arjan Vrieze (5)
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