DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY AND CREMATION MEMORIAL
Bayern
Germany
Location Information
The small village of Durnbach lies in the south of Germany approx 45kms south of Munich.
From the A8 Munich to Salzburg motorway take exit 97 (Ausfahrt 97) HOLZKIRCHEN / TEGERNSEE / BAD WIESEE / BAD TOLZ and follow the B318 direction GMUND AM TEGERNSEE.
Continue for approx 14kms and then turn left (CWGC sign) onto the B472 direction MIESBACH.
Continue for approx 1km and the cemetery can be found on the left.
The cemetery address is:-
Am Moos
83703 Gmund am Tegernsee
Germany
GPS Location is:- N 47° 46' 42" E 11° 44' 0.7"
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible via the main entrance.
(From Gregg Davis. There is a stair going into the visitor registration building then another step down into the cemetery grounds. I use a power wheelchair and brought ramps which enabled entrance).
Historical Information
The site for Durnbach War Cemetery was chosen, shortly after hostilities had ceased, by officers of the British Army and Air Force, in conjunction with officers of the American Occupation Forces in whose zone Durnbach lay.
The great majority of those buried here are airmen shot down over Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Austria, Hessen and Thuringia, brought from their scattered graves by the Army Graves Service. The remainder are men who were killed while escaping from prisoner of war camps in the same areas, or who died towards the end of the War on forced marches from the camps to more remote areas.
DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY contains 2,934 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 93 of which are unidentified. One grave in the cemetery (III. C. 22.) contains the ashes of an unknown number of unidentified war casualties recovered from Flossenburg. Also, one grave (IV. A. 21.) contains the remains of 6 unidentified U.K. airmen.
There are also 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
Total Burials: 2,971.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 1,960, Canada 484, Australia 280, New Zealand 70, South Africa 30, India 27, Poland 20, U. S. A. 4, Austria 2, Norway 1. Total 2,879.
Unidentified Casualties: 92. Total 92.
Within the Indian section of the cemetery will be found the DURNBACH CREMATION MEMORIAL, commemorating 23 servicemen of the army of undivided India who died while prisoners of war in various places in France and Germany, and who were cremated in accordance with their religion.
Cemetery pictures and Memorial used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The small village of Durnbach lies in the south of Germany approx 45kms south of Munich.
From the A8 Munich to Salzburg motorway take exit 97 (Ausfahrt 97) HOLZKIRCHEN / TEGERNSEE / BAD WIESEE / BAD TOLZ and follow the B318 direction GMUND AM TEGERNSEE.
Continue for approx 14kms and then turn left (CWGC sign) onto the B472 direction MIESBACH.
Continue for approx 1km and the cemetery can be found on the left.
The cemetery address is:-
Am Moos
83703 Gmund am Tegernsee
Germany
GPS Location is:- N 47° 46' 42" E 11° 44' 0.7"
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible via the main entrance.
(From Gregg Davis. There is a stair going into the visitor registration building then another step down into the cemetery grounds. I use a power wheelchair and brought ramps which enabled entrance).
Historical Information
The site for Durnbach War Cemetery was chosen, shortly after hostilities had ceased, by officers of the British Army and Air Force, in conjunction with officers of the American Occupation Forces in whose zone Durnbach lay.
The great majority of those buried here are airmen shot down over Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Austria, Hessen and Thuringia, brought from their scattered graves by the Army Graves Service. The remainder are men who were killed while escaping from prisoner of war camps in the same areas, or who died towards the end of the War on forced marches from the camps to more remote areas.
DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY contains 2,934 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 93 of which are unidentified. One grave in the cemetery (III. C. 22.) contains the ashes of an unknown number of unidentified war casualties recovered from Flossenburg. Also, one grave (IV. A. 21.) contains the remains of 6 unidentified U.K. airmen.
There are also 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
Total Burials: 2,971.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 1,960, Canada 484, Australia 280, New Zealand 70, South Africa 30, India 27, Poland 20, U. S. A. 4, Austria 2, Norway 1. Total 2,879.
Unidentified Casualties: 92. Total 92.
Within the Indian section of the cemetery will be found the DURNBACH CREMATION MEMORIAL, commemorating 23 servicemen of the army of undivided India who died while prisoners of war in various places in France and Germany, and who were cremated in accordance with their religion.
Cemetery pictures and Memorial used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R/251406 Flight Sergeant
Robert James Barr
Air Gunner in 166 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
4th December 1944, aged 19.
Plot 4. F. 24.
His Headstone bears the inscription "Too Dearly Loved To Be Forgotten. Mother, Dad, Sister And Brother"
Son of James Reid Barr and Edith Barr, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Robert served with the RCAF, Bomber Command in WW2. He was a rear gunner on a Lancaster that was shot down near Munich, Germany on December 4, 1944. The entire crew other than the pilot perished.
Pictures courtesy of Albert Barr (Brother)
Robert James Barr
Air Gunner in 166 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
4th December 1944, aged 19.
Plot 4. F. 24.
His Headstone bears the inscription "Too Dearly Loved To Be Forgotten. Mother, Dad, Sister And Brother"
Son of James Reid Barr and Edith Barr, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Robert served with the RCAF, Bomber Command in WW2. He was a rear gunner on a Lancaster that was shot down near Munich, Germany on December 4, 1944. The entire crew other than the pilot perished.
Pictures courtesy of Albert Barr (Brother)
