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The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial (French:Le Cimetière de Guerre Canadien Groesbeek) is located about three kilometres north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II. Thousands of Dutch children tend the graves of the soldiers buried here as they do throughout the Netherlands. The cemetery also has a Cross of Sacrifice within it.

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  • Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
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  • The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial (French:Le Cimetière de Guerre Canadien Groesbeek) is located about three kilometres north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II. Thousands of Dutch children tend the graves of the soldiers buried here as they do throughout the Netherlands. The cemetery also has a Cross of Sacrifice within it.
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Name
  • Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Body
by war
  • World War II: 2,617
Total
  • 2617(xsd:integer)
unknowns
  • 20(xsd:integer)
unveiled
  • 1946-11-04(xsd:date)
Established
  • February 1945
Nearest Town
  • Groesbeek, Netherlands
commemorates
  • soldiers who were killed during World War II
by country
  • Allied Forces *Canada 2338 *United Kingdom 268 *Belgium 3 *Australia 2 *Poland 2 *Netherlands 1 *New Zealand 1 *Soviet Union 1 *Yugoslavia 1
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  • The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial (French:Le Cimetière de Guerre Canadien Groesbeek) is located about three kilometres north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II. The cemetery is unique in that many of the dead were brought here from nearby Germany. It is one of the few cases where bodies were moved across international frontiers. It is believed that all fallen Canadian soldiers of the Rhineland battles, who were buried in German battlefields, were reinterred here (except for one who is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery). General H.D.G. Crerar, who commanded Canadian land forces in Europe, ordered that Canadian dead were not to be buried in German soil. Thousands of Dutch children tend the graves of the soldiers buried here as they do throughout the Netherlands. The cemetery also has a Cross of Sacrifice within it.
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