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DONGEN ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Noord-Brabant

Netherlands

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 51.63258, Longitude: 4.93909

Location Information

Dongen is a village 13.5 kilometres north-west of Tilburg. The cemetery is situated next to the police station on the northern outskirts of the village, in a road called Bolkensteeg. The Commonwealth war graves are in the north-east corner of the cemetery.


Historical Information

There are 9 Commonwealth burials in this cemetery, 8 from the UK and 1 from Poland.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery
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1880342 Sergeant
Reginald Cecil Carvell
158 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25th May 1944, aged 20.


Son of Leslie Cecil and Amy Freda Carvell, of Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire.

​His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"




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1397422 Flight Sergeant
Thomas Arthur Colman
158 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25th May 1944, aged 23.


Son of Albert Arthur and Ethel May Colman; husband of Gladys Emily Colman, of Battersea, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "Always A Beautiful Memory Of My Dearest Husband Whom I Loved So Much"





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1819416 Sergeant
Raymond Dennis Gould
158 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25th May 1944, aged 22.


Son of Alfred Edwin and Florence Gould, of Cheylesmore, Coventry.

His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than That He Lay Down His Life That Others Might Live"



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1893220 Sergeant
William Austin Hughes
158 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25th May 1944, aged 20.


Son of William John and Eliza Hughes, of Hanwell, Middlesex.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Gave His All That We Might Live In Peace"




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6371 Kapralk
Kazimierz Tadeusz Kozula
1.P.A.Mot. Polish Army
23rd February 1945, aged 24.



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152203 Flying Officer
John Williamson Oakley
158 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25th May 1944, aged 22.


Son of Hermann Vivian and Helen Maud Oakley, of Catford, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "Happy,Generous, Lovable, Gave All For Mankind And Left His Own Folk Desolate"





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1516167 Sergeant
Edward Oldroyd
158 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25th May 1944, aged 24.


Son of William and Ethel Oldroyd, of Pudsey, Yorkshire.

​His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Him"

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Other Burials

177011 Pilot Officer John Seymour Macleod Clarke, 158 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 25th May 1944, aged 25.
 Son of Arthur Denison Macleod Clarke, and of Nancy Clarke (nee Woolcombe); husband of Mary Clarke, of Pilley Bailey, Hampshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Life, To Be Sure, Is nothing Much to Lose, But Young Men Think It Is, And We Were Young"

1307935 Sergeant Jack Spencer, 622 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 21st July 1944.

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OOSTERHOUT PROTESTANT CEMETERY
SPRANG CAPELLE (CAPELLE) GENERAL CEMETERY
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The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
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