Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery

Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial is a Second World War Commonwealth War Graves Commission army warfare grave cemetery, placed inside the village of Groesbeek, eight km southeast of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Of the whole 2,619 burials, the cemetery incorporates 2,338 Canadian infantrymen. It changed into constructed to a layout by using Commission architect Philip Hepworth. The cemetery is precise in that many of the lifeless have been delivered here from nearby Germany. It is one of the few cases wherein our bodies have been moved across worldwide frontiers.

It is assumed that all fallen Canadian squaddies of the Rhineland battles, who have been buried in German battlefields, have been re-interred right here. General Crerar, who commanded Canadian land forces in Europe, ordered that Canadian dead have been no longer to be buried in German soil. The cemetery additionally has a Cross of Sacrifice inside it. Thousands of Dutch kids tend the graves of the soldiers buried here as they do all through the Netherlands.