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OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD

Noord-Brabant

Netherlands


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 51.62663, Longitude: 5.88241

Location Information

This cemetery is in the village and municipality of St. Anthonis and is on the main Oploo-Boxmeer road. It is 4 kilometres north of Oploo, and 6 kilometres south-west of Boxmeer.

The churchyard is in the centre of the village. 


Historical Information

There are 4, 1939-1945 War casualties commemorated in this site.

Images in gallery below © Geerhard Joos

OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
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OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
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OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
Burial Details

117242 Captain Roland Hubert Wyburne Ellis, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, died 27th September 1944, aged 31. Son of Bertram W. Ellis, and of Winifred D. Ellis (nee Mackinnon) of Cookham Dean, Berkshire. B.A., LL.B. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun and In The Morning We Will Remember Them"

14664958 Lance Corporal Maurice Charles Lock, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, R. A. C., died 25th September 1944, aged 29. Son of Arthur George and Elsie A. Lock; husband of Una Jessmee Lock, of Dartmouth, Devon. His headstone bears the inscription "To The World He Was Just One, To Us He Was All The World"

149792 Lieutenant John Wilson, Royal Artillery attached to 659 A. O. P.  Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 15th November 1944, aged 26. Son of John and Mary Wilson, of Greenock, Renfrewshire. His headstone bears the inscription "At Rest"

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51903 Lieutenant Colonel 
David Arthur Henry Silvertop, D. S. O. & M. C. 

14th/20th King's Hussars Royal Armoured Corps, Commanding  3rd Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
25th September 1944, aged 32. 

​Son of Comdr. Arthur Edward Silvertop, R.N. (killed in action at The Battle of Jutland 31st May, 1916), and of Dorothy Silvertop (nee Dalglish).

His headstone bears the inscription "Requiem Aeternam Dona Ei, Domine; Et Lux Perpetua Luceat Ei"

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Document below © Geerhard Joos

The Gate is near the river Rupel where the tanks crossed the river in the small vilage "Klein Willebroek"  
the bridge no longer exists but the gate is a reminder of where the bridge used to be.

Document below © Geerhard Joos

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
OPLOO (ST. ANTHONIS) 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.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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