MONSTER GENERAL CEMETERY
Zuid-Holland
The Netherlands
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 52.02935, Longitude: 4.17819
Location Information
Monster is a small town on the main road between The Hague and Hook of Holland, lying 15 kilometres south-west of The Hague and 10 kilometres north of Hook of Holland. The cemetery is on the north side of the town, in Molenweg, 200 metres from the junction with Haagweg, and about 200 metres south of the windmill. The Commonwealth war graves can be found to the left hand side of the cemetery.
Historical Information
Monster General Cemetery contains two Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Burial Details
P/JX 275234 Ordinary Seaman Harry Norman Grainger, H.M.M.T.B. 29, Royal Navy, died 6th October 1942, aged 20. Row A. 24. Son of Albert W. and Edith May Grainger, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Days And Memories Quickly Fly But Loving Memories Never Die"
1376622 Sergeant Cuthbert Woollard, 142 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 25th October 1942, aged 29. Son of Izaac and Madeline Woollard; husband of Florence Maud Woollard, of Coulsdon, Surrey. His headstone bears the inscription "He Died That Others Might Live"
Monster is a small town on the main road between The Hague and Hook of Holland, lying 15 kilometres south-west of The Hague and 10 kilometres north of Hook of Holland. The cemetery is on the north side of the town, in Molenweg, 200 metres from the junction with Haagweg, and about 200 metres south of the windmill. The Commonwealth war graves can be found to the left hand side of the cemetery.
Historical Information
Monster General Cemetery contains two Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Burial Details
P/JX 275234 Ordinary Seaman Harry Norman Grainger, H.M.M.T.B. 29, Royal Navy, died 6th October 1942, aged 20. Row A. 24. Son of Albert W. and Edith May Grainger, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Days And Memories Quickly Fly But Loving Memories Never Die"
1376622 Sergeant Cuthbert Woollard, 142 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 25th October 1942, aged 29. Son of Izaac and Madeline Woollard; husband of Florence Maud Woollard, of Coulsdon, Surrey. His headstone bears the inscription "He Died That Others Might Live"
