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EMPEL-EN-MEERWIJK (OUD EMPEL) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD

Noord-Brabant

The Netherlands

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 51.73621, Longitude: 5.30462

Location Information

Empel and Meerwijk are adjoining villages under one administration. Empel is 6 kilometres north of 'S-Hertogenbosch on the south side of the River Maas.

Historical Information

The church, which stood in the centre of the village, was completely destroyed during the 1939-1945 war, and the churchyard is in the old section of the village, 1.75 miles to the north-west of the new. There is a single 1939-1945 war casualty commemorated in this site in the southern part of the Churchyard.

Burial Details: 

14357720 Private Kenneth Baldwin Alcock, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 7th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, died 5th November 1944, aged 21.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Empel-en-Meerwijk (Oud Empel Roman Catholic Churchyard
Empel-en-Meerwijk (Oud Empel Roman Catholic Churchyard
Empel-en-Meerwijk (Oud Empel Roman Catholic Churchyard
Empel-en-Meerwijk (Oud Empel Roman Catholic Churchyard

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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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