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HARDERWIJK GENERAL CEMETERY
Gelderland
Netherlands

Location Information

Harderwijk, on the shore of the Ijsselmeer (Zuiderzee), is 42 kilometres north-east of Utrecht and 45 kilometres north-west of Apeldoorn. The cemetery is nearly 1 kilometre east of the centre of the town in Oosteinde, a turning off of Newtonweg.


Visiting Information

Please note that this cemetery closes at 16.00.


Historical Information

In the south-eastern part of the cemetery are two plots containing the graves of airmen whose remains were recovered from Ijsselmeer or from the surrounding countryside from 1941 onwards.

There are 45 Commonwealth Servicemen buried here, 3, unidentified.

Pictures © Werner Van Caneghem

 WW2 Monument in Harderwijk (Gelderland) The Netherlands.
The Memorial commemorates 117 Allied airmen who were killed in this area, most of them crashed in the IJsselmeer.
Pictures © Frits Leenders

Text on the Plaque

Tussen 1940 en 1945 
verloren  117 bemanningsleden
van geallieerden vliegtuigen
hun leven in of bij Harderwijk,
Veelal in het IJsselmeer.

Between 1940 and 1945
lost 117 crew members
of Allies aircrafts
their lives in or near Harderwijk,
Usually in the IJsselmeer.

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Disclaimer


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.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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