AVEREEST (OUD AVEREEST) GENERAL CEMETERY
Overijssel
The Netherlands
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 52.62064, Longitude: 6.37032
Image © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Oud Avereest is a village 15 kilometres south-east of Meppel on the Meppel-Ommen road. The cemetery is 1 kilometre north of the village on the road to Meppel. On the north-eastern side of the cemetery are the graves of 3 airmen, one from the United Kingdom and two from Canada.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
J/10119 Flying Officer
Hugh Donald Beattie
Pilot in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
14th May 1943, aged 21.
Son of Hugh Duncan Beattie and Mar garet Johnstone Beattie, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish But Have Eternal Life"
Hugh was captain of a Halifax aircraft which took off to carry out operations against Bochum, Germany, and failed to return.
Hugh Donald Beattie
Pilot in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
14th May 1943, aged 21.
Son of Hugh Duncan Beattie and Mar garet Johnstone Beattie, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish But Have Eternal Life"
Hugh was captain of a Halifax aircraft which took off to carry out operations against Bochum, Germany, and failed to return.
R/95244 Flight Sergeant
Ralph Eric Hart
Air Gunner in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
14th May 1943, aged 22.
Son of Waddy and Gertrude Hart, of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "Loved In Life And Living Yet In The Hearts Of Those Who Will Never Forget"
Ralph Eric Hart
Air Gunner in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
14th May 1943, aged 22.
Son of Waddy and Gertrude Hart, of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "Loved In Life And Living Yet In The Hearts Of Those Who Will Never Forget"
1269142 Sergeant
Sydney Buchanan Hawley
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 405 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
14th May 1943, aged 22.
Son of Robert Arthur and Violet Florence Hawley, of Becken ham, Kent.
Sydney Buchanan Hawley
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 405 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
14th May 1943, aged 22.
Son of Robert Arthur and Violet Florence Hawley, of Becken ham, Kent.
